From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6968 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: What are the fonts called in Context? Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:39:10 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <02022215391007.04041@publish> Reply-To: john@wexfordpress.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397466 15327 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:24:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:24:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "ntg-context@ntg.nl" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6968 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6968 Henry Ford said yo could have a car in any color so long as it was black. Context says you can ask for any font you want to so long as it is Computer Modern. I tried asking for lbr (Lucida Bright) as the \setupbody font. The program went into a tailspin trying and failing to create all the fonts. Then I used ppl as the asked for font. Another tailspin, which is funny because I use Palatino in plain TeX files with no problem. If I ask for just pl it does not complain but just gives me computer modern. SO: Is there a list of the font name abbreviations that context will accept? Are there any fonts other than cm that can be used without going into the mktextfm/kpathsea loop? I would not complain except that I can create these fonts in any needed sizes in plain tex. The following works fine in plain tex: \font\rm= pplr at 10pt \font\it= pplri at 10pt \font\bf = pplb8r at 14pt It also runs without error in context but seems to have no effect. Any suggestions? John Culleton