From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41457 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Bitstream Charter vs. Charis SIL Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:44:59 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0806090044od7d5eddj991ea4a20420caf9@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00806070234j777520f4nc2343a82f3c7a2d9@mail.gmail.com> <115224fb0806082359q1a921d19y812419181aa6567f@mail.gmail.com> <484CD5FE.7080207@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212997607 17586 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 07:46:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:46:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jonathan Kew To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 09 09:47:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5c60-00082o-AE for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:47:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F231FD09; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:46:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30136-02-3; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:45:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 844EE1FCAA; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:45:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EEBB1FC91 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:45:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30587-02-5 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:45:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.156]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1485E1FCAA for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:45:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so1512488ywm.74 for ; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.114.9 with SMTP id r9mr5817482ybm.118.1212997499793; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.113.9 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 00:44:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <484CD5FE.7080207@elvenkind.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41457 Archived-At: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> >> There is no difference, the same fonts are loaded, I tried this a month ago. >> >>> Now that I'm looking at it again at >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Charter: >>> >>>> This has resulted in derivatives of Bitstream Charter becoming available, including Charis SIL. >>> What about adding >>> http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont >>> to the distribution, possibly including TeX Live, and replacing the >>> definitions to use CharisSIL in XeTeX/LuaTeX instead of Bitstream >>> Charter? The same move that has happened with TeX Gyre? Any comments? >>> Suggestions? >> >> The fonts include more characters but come without any kerning information. > > The kerning of Bitstream Charter is so dodgy that this is not > a big loss. I have no problem if this is so. I encountered another problem in my own typescripts for Charis SIL, I could use the bold style when I use the file name but not for the font name. Try this: \starttypescript [serif] [charissil] \setups[font:fallback:serif] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [CharisSIL-Regular] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [CharisSIL-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [CharisSIL-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [CharisSIL-BoldItalic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [charissil] \definefontsynonym [CharisSIL-Regular] [file:CharisSILR] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [CharisSIL-Italic] [file:CharisSILI] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [CharisSIL-Bold] [file:CharisSILB] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [CharisSIL-BoldItalic] [file:CharisSILBI] [features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [charissil] \definetypeface [charissil] [rm] [serif] [charissil] [default] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[charissil] \setupbodyfont[charissil] \starttext \tf Text \it Text \bf Text \bi Text \stoptext I get all four style in the output but when I use the font name in the definition the normal bold style is replace by the bolditalic style. \starttypescript [serif] [charissil] \definefontsynonym [CharisSIL-Regular] [name:Charis SIL] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [CharisSIL-Italic] [name:Charis SIL Italic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [CharisSIL-Bold] [name:Charis SIL Bold] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [CharisSIL-BoldItalic] [name:Charis SIL Bold Italic] [features=default] \stoptypescript Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________