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From: Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Changing typeface for non-body text, using XeTeX -- how?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:34:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1765BC29-3CD8-475A-9780-C1B15097B62A@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <771da05a1002211918t76c617f2x234ca597624a6d40@mail.gmail.com>


On Feb 22, 2010, at 4:18 AM, James Fisher wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm new to TeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX.
> I'm progressing fine except for in one area: even though I'm told  
> I'm using the best possible software for easy typeface use in TeX,  
> I'm finding this area (i.e., fonts) confusing and badly documented.
> This is all the more surprising as what I want to do seems entirely  
> bog-standard: set some basic brand identity by using a body  
> typeface and heading typeface.
> There's the \setupbodyfont command for, obviously, the body font --  
> but I can't identify any equivalent command like "\setupheadingfont".
> I can see other commands for ad hoc use of other fonts, but I want  
> to stick with as much semantic markup as possible and apply style  
> elsewhere.
> Presumably this is possible!  Could someone explain to me how to do  
> this?
>
You can define your own styles if needed and use the style=yourstyle  
where this key is available:

\definealternativestyle[HeadStyle] [{\definedfont[Seravek-Regular at  
16pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=18pt]}]

\setuphead[chapter][style=HeadStyle]


Willi

> Best wishes
>
>
> James Fisher
>
>
> (p.s. -- I'm coming from HTML+CSS-ish paradigms here, if that would  
> help someone explain to me how I should reorganise my mind.)
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-22 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-22  3:18 James Fisher
2010-02-22  9:43 ` Hans Hagen
2010-02-22 10:34 ` Willi Egger [this message]

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