Jonathan Kew wrote: >> \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font>0\fi\bye >> abcd >> \end >> >> no output is produced. I would expect "abcd" to be typeset. > > Why would you expect that? \bye will end the job, before you get to "abcd". Because \XeTeXcountvariations should return 0 for XeTeX's default font, should it not ? Philip Taylor