Macro for changing font and its size

Question

I'm trying out Context and have hit a bump. I need to create a macro which inserts a symbol from another font at a different size in the running text. I'm done this in XeLaTeX before but I'm having trouble doing this in Context.

The following is my MWE (ConTeXt):

\definefont[sakkal][name:Sakkal Majalla at 36pt]

\def\mySakkal{{\sakkal TEST}}

\starttext

This is normal text and this is \mySakkal{} which should be bigger.

\stoptext

The font does change but the font size does not. My ConTeXt version is 2016.05.17 19:20.

For reference, here is the MWE in in XeLaTeX:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}

\newfontfamily\sakkalfont[
Script=Arabic,%
Numbers=Proportional,%
Scale=2.0,%
]{Sakkal Majalla}

\newcommand{\mySakkal}{{\sakkalfont{TEST}}}

\begin{document}
This is regular text and this is \mySakkal{} which should be bigger.
\end{document}

The following is the results of both.

Answer 1

I tested your example with ConTeXt from texlive, and I get the expected output again. Are you sure ConTeXt finds your font file?Here is my output, with indication of the version used (I use the file syntax for specifying the font instead of name because I didn't want to install it, but that shouldn't make any difference):

Answer 2

The devil is in the details.

After spending mobile bandwidth downloading the latest ConTeXt and just barely getting it running, I was met with the same problem.

The space in the middle of the font name was causing the problem.

The following works perfectly:

\definefont[sakkal][name:SakkalMajalla at 36pt]

\def\mySakkal{{\sakkal TEST}}

\starttext

This is normal text and this is \mySakkal{} which should be bigger.

\stoptext