Re: notes on TeXLive and Truetype fonts

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Jens-Uwe Morawski said this at Thu, 10 Apr 2003 00:10:09 +0200:

>The problem is, for example, how can one declare a bold-italic small-caps
>font in ConTeXT. AFAIK i can define
>\definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalicCaps][AFont-BoldItalicCaps]
>
>but there seems no standard way to access it (\bfitsc or {\bf{\it{\sc...}}})
>ConTeXt lacks a complete standard set of font attributes and how they
>have to be used. LaTeX has them defined, thus it is easier to create
>FDs than typescript. Even how to name typescript-files is nowhere defined.

I was dealing with the problem of a bold italic smallcaps font this
weekend, and I was running into some sort of limits within ConTeXt in
terms of the number of \tfa \tfb \sc font strategies (is that the right
term?) that I could define without running out of room.

I suspect it's *possible* to have a complete set of font attributes, but
there are some architectural and practical limits at the moment.

Anyone who can comment further?

adam
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