From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Context-minimal installation problem.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:09:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908181609.34021.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DC1F0BBF-30B3-4CE7-A3C6-D73BDB63F0E8@gmail.com>
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 03:30:36 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 18.08.2009 um 21:29 schrieb John Culleton:
> > Also I find font handling easier in pdftex. Just a single
> > statement is needed.
>
> Can you a bit more specific what do you mean with this sentence.
>
> Wolfgang
>
Well if I want bitstream charter roman at 11.2pts I can say
\font\rm bchr8r at 11.2pt
and I am done.
Or I can define something called \fontsize and make it the referent
for all my font statements:
\newdimen\fontsize
\fontsize=11.2pt
\baselineskip= 1.1\fontsize
\font\rm bchr8r at \fontsize
\font\bo bchbo8t at 1.1\fontsize
...and so on. If I need the book a little longer I just change
\fontsize. I have even done tricks like this:
\fontfam=bch
\font\rm \fontfam r8r at \fontsize
Introducing a new font into TeX is never simple but I find it easier
if I don't have to construct (and debug) an elaborate chain of
font synonyms.
It may be the luatex has made life simpler (or at least more
exciting!) I will examine that prospect next. But right now I am
typesetting novels, memoirs and the like. The fewer variables I
have to contend with the better.
YMMV of course.
--
John Culleton
Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-18 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 16:15 John Culleton
2009-08-18 16:55 ` luigi scarso
2009-08-18 16:57 ` Hans van der Meer
2009-08-18 17:44 ` John Culleton
2009-08-18 17:48 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2009-08-18 17:59 ` luigi scarso
2009-08-18 18:04 ` John Culleton
2009-08-18 18:11 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2009-08-18 19:06 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-18 19:02 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-18 19:29 ` John Culleton
2009-08-18 19:30 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-08-18 20:09 ` John Culleton [this message]
2009-08-18 20:14 ` Wolfgang Schuster
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=200908181609.34021.john@wexfordpress.com \
--to=john@wexfordpress.com \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).