Re: Font questions once again...

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl>]

Dnia Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:29:41PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater napisał(a):
> 
> Hi Marcin,
> 
> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Marcin Borkowski
> > <mbork@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
> >> Thanks again...  I tried to put some info on the wiki (as promised):
> >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/A_Beginner's_Guide_to_Using_Fonts_in_Mark_IV
> >> However, I had serious problems with a few fonts.  After skimming
> >> through type-otf.tex I thought these would work, but no - they don't...
> >> (See the above page for which fonts generate problems.)  Also, please
> >> check whether the page I've written is correct, especially the last
> >> paragraph...
> 
> I have not seen your original post yet, so I am replying to Wolfgang's 
> reply. It seems you have misunderstood the system slightly: the
> predefined typescripts are given in table 1.7 of co-typography.pdf,
> the tables in co-fonts.pdf are 'typescript building blocks', and those
> cannot be used directly, you have to write (at least) a \definetypeface
> line for those.

Well, "misunderstood" is not the right word - it seems I just don't
understand it yet...

I looked a bit at the type-otf.tex file.  At the beginning, it says
something like "\starttypescriptcollection[examples]".  Typescripts from
this \start...\stop block work correctly (with the exception of Antykwa
Torunska).  Typescripts from the outside don't work (with the exception
of Heros).  Maybe I should mimick these definitions somehow?  Still, the
cases of Antykwa Torunska and Heros are mysterious to me.

The table 1.7 you mentioned is also a bit strange: it mentions palatino
as "commercial".

What I was aiming at was: how to (easily) use the fonts "shipped with
ConTeXt" (i.e., the Minimals).  I would expect them to be usable "out of
the box"; if they are not, please consider this a bug report/feature
request;).  In fact, I would expect something like
\useptypescript[pagella]
\setupbodyfont[pagella]
work for the whole collection in the Minimals.
(BTW, why is pagella called palatino etc?  I guess that some aliases
could also be default?)

And thanks for the answer - I'm continuosly learning ConTeXt.  It
seems that it's not as nice and easy as I thought - but I hope that once
I start using it, more and more things will clarify.

> 
> Best wishes,
> Taco

Greets

-- 
Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.faculty.fmcs.amu.edu.pl)

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