Ah thanks to all!
I’ll dive into it

Best

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(Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski)

> On 3 Apr 2017, at 21:07, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Andrea Valle wrote:
> 
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I have a question which is really basic. MacOSX here.
>> I looked at the wiki, but the whole matter is a bit far from my knowledge.
>> Is there a way to use system fonts? I *think* I remember something like simpletypescript package
> 
> 
> 1. First, let's check if context is seeing the fonts that ship with OSX.
> 
> mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern="palatino*" --all
> 
> palatino                     palatinobolditalic           /System/Library/Fonts/Palatino.ttc                           index:  4
> palatinobold                 palatinobolditalic           /System/Library/Fonts/Palatino.ttc                           index:  4
> palatinobolditalic           palatinobolditalic           /System/Library/Fonts/Palatino.ttc                           index:  4
> palatinolinotype             palatinolinotyperoman        /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Palatino Linotype.ttf
> palatinolinotypebold         palatinolinotypebold         /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Palatino Linotype Bold.ttf
> palatinolinotypebolditalic   palatinolinotypebolditalic   /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Palatino Linotype Bold Italic.ttf
> palatinolinotypeitalic       palatinolinotypeitalic       /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Palatino Linotype Italic.ttf
> palatinolinotypenormal       palatinolinotyperoman        /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Palatino Linotype.ttf
> palatinolinotyperegular      palatinolinotyperoman        /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Palatino Linotype.ttf
> palatinolinotyperoman        palatinolinotyperoman        /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Palatino Linotype.ttf
> 
> OK. So, I have a palatino that ships with apple and Palatino Linotype that
> ships with Microsoft Office (I think).
> 
> 2. Let's create a typescript to use this (I haven't check the font license to see if you can distribute a pdf of this document. Please check your font license!):
> 
> \definefontfamily [myfont] [serif] [Palatino Linotype]
> \setupbodyfont [myfont]
> 
> \starttext
> This is a test \bold{Does bold work} and does \italic{italic}?
> \stoptext
> 
> That's it! Simply compile the file and everything works. Of course, for a
> real document, you need to set the sans serif, mono, and math font style as
> well.
> 
> Aditya
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