Re: re-using ConTeXt typescripts ?

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

Hi Steffen,

You're pretty close. It's best not to rewrite your old scripts, rather,
to make a new type-enc style script to replace your existing [serif]
[agaramond][ec] script. This way, when changing engines, it's a simple
step of changing the (default, perhaps?) encoding...

\starttypescript [serif] [agaramond] [uc] % XeTeX and Unicode is a happy
combination
   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-Regular]        
      ['AGaramondPro-Regular:mapping=tex-text;+onum']        [encoding=uc] 
   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-Italic]         
      ['AGaramondPro-Italic:mapping=tex-text;+onum']         [encoding=uc] 
   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-Bold]           
      ['AGaramondPro-Bold:mapping=tex-text;+onum']           [encoding=uc]
   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-BoldItalic]     
      ['AGaramondPro-BoldItalic:mapping=tex-text;+onum']     [encoding=uc]
   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-Semibold]       
      ['AGaramondPro-Semibold:mapping=tex-text;+onum']       [encoding=uc]
   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-SemiboldItalic] 
      ['AGaramondPro-SemiboldItalic:mapping=tex-text;+onum'] [encoding=uc]
\stoptypescript

So, as you will know from the XeTeX documentation :), the way of naming
a font is enclosed within quotes. The first element is the postscript
font name (otfinfo -p <fontname> or look in FontBook.app), then
(optionally) a /I, /B, /BI, or /S for within-family selection, any
mapping features, and then other OpenType features.

Here I selected the tex-text mapping (to stay consistent with `` --- ''
ligatures), and the +onum opentype feature (guessing from the name of
your typescripts, you like Oldstyle NUMerals).

If you wanted to go further, you could define an \sc alternative in your
typescripts by inserting it into your other typescripts and turning on
the +smcp feature in AGaramondPro-Regular for the appropriate synonym to
fit above. I leave that as an exercise for the reader...

adam

Steffen Wolfrum said this at Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:37:24 +0200:

>\starttypescript [serif] [agaramond] [ec]
>   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-Regular]        [padr9e] 
>[encoding=uc] % was encoding=ec before xetex
>   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-Italic]         [padri9e]
[encoding=uc] % =ec
>   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-Bold]           [padb9e] 
[encoding=uc] % =ec
>   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-BoldItalic]     [padbi9e]
[encoding=uc] % =ec
>   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-Semibold]       [pads9e] 
[encoding=uc] % =ec
>   \definefontsynonym [AGaramond-SemiboldItalic] [padsi9e]
[encoding=uc] % =ec
>\stoptypescript
>\starttypescript [serif] [agaramond] [name]
>   \definefontsynonym [Serif]             [AGaramond-Regular]
>   \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] 
>[AGaramond-Semibold]%[AGaramond-Bold-OSF]
>   \definefontsynonym [SemiBold]          [AGaramond-Semibold]
>   \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic]       [AGaramond-Italic]
>   \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] 
>[AGaramond-SemiboldItalic]%[AGaramond-BoldItalic-OSF]
>   \definefontsynonym [SemiBoldItalic]    [AGaramond-SemiboldItalic]
>\stoptypescript
>\starttypescript      [serif][allbold][all]
>    \definefontsynonym [Serif]          [SerifBold]
>    \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic]    [SerifBoldItalic]
>\stoptypescript
>
>\starttypescript [AGaramondOldStyle]
>   \definetypeface [normaltype] [rm] [serif]  [agaramond] 
>[default] [encoding=uc] % =ec
>   \definetypeface [boldtype]   [rm] [serif]  [agaramond,allbold] 
>[default] [encoding=uc] % =ec
>\stoptypescript

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