From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43454 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font questions once again... Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:02:15 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0808280502m68ebf2eteed624cee725efc2@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080825204658.GT4017@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> <5EFD4E4F-804A-445A-8A97-267C98260CD5@uni-bonn.de> <20080828094405.GP4017@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> <115224fb0808280256k2e0c487dj5d9d5e9cf811acd4@mail.gmail.com> <48B67E15.5020803@elvenkind.com> <20080828104934.GS4017@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> 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 1219925285 30541 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2008 12:08:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:08:05 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 28 14:08:59 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 1KYgIf-0000qY-NP for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:08:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A48D1FDF0; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:07:28 +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 26008-02-6; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:06:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716291FBC6; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:03:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52F71FC03 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:03:08 +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 26004-01-5 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:02:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.154]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378141FDEA for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:02:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 3so180239yxi.74 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.186.21 with SMTP id j21mr2025831ybf.171.1219924935069; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.103.21 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:02:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080828104934.GS4017@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> 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:43454 Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Dnia Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:29:41PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater napisał(a): >> >> Hi Marcin, >> >> Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Marcin Borkowski >> > wrote: >> >> Thanks again... I tried to put some info on the wiki (as promised): >> >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/A_Beginner's_Guide_to_Using_Fonts_in_Mark_IV >> >> However, I had serious problems with a few fonts. After skimming >> >> through type-otf.tex I thought these would work, but no - they don't... >> >> (See the above page for which fonts generate problems.) Also, please >> >> check whether the page I've written is correct, especially the last >> >> paragraph... >> >> I have not seen your original post yet, so I am replying to Wolfgang's >> reply. It seems you have misunderstood the system slightly: the >> predefined typescripts are given in table 1.7 of co-typography.pdf, >> the tables in co-fonts.pdf are 'typescript building blocks', and those >> cannot be used directly, you have to write (at least) a \definetypeface >> line for those. > > Well, "misunderstood" is not the right word - it seems I just don't > understand it yet... > > I looked a bit at the type-otf.tex file. At the beginning, it says > something like "\starttypescriptcollection[examples]". Typescripts from > this \start...\stop block work correctly (with the exception of Antykwa > Torunska). Typescripts from the outside don't work (with the exception > of Heros). Maybe I should mimick these definitions somehow? Still, the > cases of Antykwa Torunska and Heros are mysterious to me. % Antykwa Torunska \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska] \setupbodyfont[antykwa] \starttext Antykwa Torunska \stoptext % Heros/Helvetica \usetypescript[helvetica] \setupbodyfont[helvetica,ss] \starttext TeX-Gyre Heros \stoptext > The table 1.7 you mentioned is also a bit strange: it mentions palatino > as "commercial". Pagella is a free Palatino clone. > What I was aiming at was: how to (easily) use the fonts "shipped with > ConTeXt" (i.e., the Minimals). I would expect them to be usable "out of > the box"; if they are not, please consider this a bug report/feature > request;). In fact, I would expect something like > \useptypescript[pagella] > \setupbodyfont[pagella] > work for the whole collection in the Minimals. > (BTW, why is pagella called palatino etc? I guess that some aliases > could also be default?) Because it's a Palatino clone. > And thanks for the answer - I'm continuosly learning ConTeXt. It > seems that it's not as nice and easy as I thought - but I hope that once > I start using it, more and more things will clarify. 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________