From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39340 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font question Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20080229223120.GA26535@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> References: <20080229194224.GB18957@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> <47C87116.4080209@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204324326 13576 80.91.229.12 (29 Feb 2008 22:32:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:32:06 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Feb 29 23:32:28 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 1JVDm8-0008Df-La for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:32:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5B61FB4E; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:46 +0100 (CET) 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 22735-01-2; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694C71FB33; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7882E1FA4C for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:35 +0100 (CET) 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 22735-01 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl (atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl [150.254.78.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2D21FB39 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1557E10111B8 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:21 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (PLD-Linux) at wmid.amu.edu.pl Original-Received: from atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10023) with ESMTP id wtWFJNeiUlAA for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl (Postfix, from userid 3884) id CE8FF10112CE; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:20 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47C87116.4080209@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i 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:39340 Archived-At: Dnia Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:54:46PM +0100, Hans Hagen napisał(a): > Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > Hi all! > > = > > I'm going to start using ConTeXt; I've been planning to do so for a few > > years, but now I finally have Internet access at home, so it's easier > > for me to look things up in the wiki (or ask here;)). > > = > > I have two questions. The first one is connected with fonts. I can't > > understand ConTeXt's font mechanism, which seems way too complicated for > > me; could anyone just tell me how I can switch to, e.g., Antykwa > > Poltawskiego (I'm Polish, so I'd like to use it;)) or, say, Pagella? Of > > course, I'd also like to be able to typeset Polish texts with them; will > = > \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] > \usetypescript[palatino][qx] > = > \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] > = Thanks a lot - it works! But... 1) when I substituted pagella for palatino, it stopped working; 2) and I still don't understand what's going on... I assume that \usetypescriptfile takes one argument, the name of the file with definitions. I assume that \usetypescript somehow defines a typescript - but the syntax is unclear to me... Finally, \setupbodyfont seems clear - it actually "chooses" given font. Am I right? (Sorry for being a nuisance - I just want to understand what's happening, at least approximately, so that I can switch to whatever fonts I'd like to, assuming they are quite "standard" and hence pre-configured in ConTeXt.) > > \enableregime[utf-8] > > \mainlanguage[pl] > = > > be enough (apart, of course, from adapting ConTeXt to Polish typography > > customs, like dots after chapter numbers etc.)? > = > that should be set up already (\mainlanguage does that) > = Well, dots after chapter numbers didn't appear (this should be easy to do with \setuphead etc., however). I'd have to experiment a bit to see what exactly is done by \mainlanguage. Or is there some place I could read about it? > > I think that that's what the wiki lacks: a beginner's guide on _using_ > > fonts (not _installing_ them or _messing_;) with them). If someone > > enlightens me on this, I could write something on the wiki about it. > = > most free fonts that ship with tex live are already set up (and you can = > make combinations of them, which is what typefaces is about) > = > it mostly bpild down to choosing a proper font encoding (qx in your case) > = I see. Still, there are amost no clues in the wiki on how to use them... I hope to grasp it some day and explain on the wiki then;). That makes my conscience more clear about asking you again;). > > And the second, a bit "philosophical" question: the official manual is > > not so new. How do I learn ConTeXt best? I mean, are changes to the > > user interface since 2001 so big that I could run into troubles using > > the manual? Or are there some changes which make something > > easier/possible which was difficult/impossible at the time or writing > > the manual - how do I learn about these? > = > no changes to the user interface, only additional features (often = > discussed in dedicated manuals) OK. That sounds good, especially that I'm planning to do some XML typesetting using ConTeXt soon - I hope that example.pdf will be enough for my purposes;). You see, I'm a kind of guy who has nothing against being said "RTFM"; but I couldn't understand the documentation on fonts... But I don't want to give up, and when I know what's going on I'll be happy to explain it somewhere in the wiki, partially for others and partially for myself, in case I forget something;)... > = > Hans > = Thanks a lot for your help! -- = Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.faculty.fmcs.amu.edu.pl) Jezus =BFyje NAPRAWD=CA. A Ty? ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________