From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12380 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: bigger font families Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 03:27:13 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <200305302230.h4UMUWni025999@localhost.localdomain> References: <200204011219.g31CJXq02230@nathir.fiee.lan> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054337273 6617 80.91.224.249 (30 May 2003 23:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:27:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sat May 31 01:27:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19LtGV-0001cP-00 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 01:26:27 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1395610B24; Sat, 31 May 2003 01:28:35 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (h-66-166-21-186.SNVACAID.covad.net [66.166.21.186]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C27110B18 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 01:24:33 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h4UMUWni025999 for ian@localhost; Fri, 30 May 2003 15:30:32 -0700 Original-To: ian@localhost.localdomain X-Envelope-TO: Original-Received: from smail.let.uu.nl (smail.let.uu.nl [131.211.194.45]) by cali-1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A35F3E659 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:35:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by smail.let.uu.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3/JEvW) id HAA03188 for ntg-context-list; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:31:24 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: smail.let.uu.nl: majordom set sender to owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl using -f Original-Received: from spider.let.uu.nl (spider.let.uu.nl [131.211.194.47]) by smail.let.uu.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3/JEvW) with ESMTP id HAA03184 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:31:18 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: from smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.141]) by spider.let.uu.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2/SYSADM) with ESMTP id g325VHq03968 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:31:17 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-ade.nl (s340-modem3591.dial.xs4all.nl [194.109.174.7]) by smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g325VB8j003515; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:31:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from laptop-2.wxs.nl (laptop-1.pragma-ade.nl [200.1.1.26]) by server-1.pragma-ade.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g321SVO22691; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 03:28:31 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020402032057.034a4b78@server-1> X-Sender: hagen@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 X-Originally-To: Henning Hraban Ramm In-Reply-To: <200204011219.g31CJXq02230@nathir.fiee.lan> Precedence: bulk Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12380 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12380 At 02:19 PM 4/1/2002 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >Ahoi! > >Is there a way for other type classes than roman, sans, math and mono? >E.g. I need sometimes an additional casual/script/handwriting font family >(think of Lucida...) and would like to address it as style=\hd or like that. > >I tried to define it with usual typescripts and "hand" instead of "sans" etc. >but had no success. If such *should* work, then I'll review it and look for >mistakes, but if it *can't* work I must abuse one of serif/sans/mono. > >An other way would be mapping the script font to an "exotic" style like >\sc\it -- what do you think? there is \hw and \cg for handwritten and calligraphy, and you can define more if you want (peek into font-ini.tex); also, in some type-* files you will find casuals; in principle you can create your own names (we do that for things like semi fonts), so we do things like: \definetypeface [mainfont] [rm] [serif] ... \definetypeface [semifont] [rm] [semi-serif] /... that's the nice thing of typefaces/scripts, that you can cook up your own names. the rm, ss, tt cg, hw entries are predefined which means that they will be recognized and have associated commands, if you want more (with as restiction that they should have two char names) you can define them with \definefontstyle; in a similar fashion you can define \tfp|q|r if you want or even map names onto families (math) etc etc Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-ade.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------