Re: urw garamond typescript

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> > \starttypescipt [mytypeface]
> >   \definetypeface [mytypeface] [ss] [sans] [...] [default]
> > \stoptypescript
>
> I try to ask better questions:
> - The first argument to \definetypeface is the name of the typeface, right?

The first argument is what you as font name for \setupbodyfont.

> - Why do I need the second *and* the third arguments, they seem redundant
>  to me?  ("ss" means always "sans" and so on)

AFAIK they are the command to switch from one style to another one,
e.g. \rm, \ss
but I wondered myself about this.

> - What is the meaning of the fourth argument, it seems that I don't need it?

The content is the name of the typescript you want to use for the font
collection,
take for example you are interested to combine different fonts for one document
to one collcetion.

\starttypescript [letter]
  \definetypeface [letter] [rm] [serif] [cambria] [default]
  \definetypeface [letter] [ss] [serif] [corbel] [default]
  \definetypeface [letter] [tt] [mono] [consolas] [default]
\stoptypescript

\usetypescript[letter]
\setupbodyfont[letter]

This is waht I use in my letter manual, I combine cambria as serif font,
corbel as sans font and consolas as mono font into the font collcetion letter.

Each of the three font is defined in a seperate typescript, the typescript for
the cambria font looks like

\starttypescript [serif] [cambria]
   ...
\stoptypescript

and the one for calibri

\starttypescripot [sans] [calibri]
  ...
\stoptypescript

> - Same question for the fifth argument.

Don't know, I though is has something to do with optical sizes but I never
tried anything else than default.

> > If you use this typescript as bodyfont a sans style would be used
> > instead of roman.
>
> > Why this odd defintion I see now why why you have to enclose all synonyms
> > within a typescript environment.
>
> I don't have to, this works too:
> \starttypescript [urwgaramond]
>  \setups[font:fallback:serif]
>  [...]
> \stoptypescript
> \starttypescript [urwgaramond]
>  [...]
>  \definetypeface [\typescriptone] [] [serif] []
> \stoptypescript

What do you use for [...] in the second typescript.

> > You will also loose the functionality to create a new font collcetion
> > for your document with the serif garamond as serif typeface, palatino
> > for math etc.
>
> Next exercise for me: creation of a new font collection!
> Could you suggest please, what fonts would fit nicely with garamond,
> for ss, tt and mm?

I suggest palatino (mathpazo?) for math but this would be more a topic
for Hraban, you could try to use the luxi mono fonts for typewriter.

Wolfgang
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