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From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Consolas
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:34:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101001213403.GA3726@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA651EC.80603@wxs.nl>

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 11:26:04PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 1-10-2010 12:42, Florian Wobbe wrote:
> >On Sep 30, 2010, at 21:01 , Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>several days ago I asked about companions to Cambria, and Wolfgang kindly gave me this:
> >>
> >>\definetypeface [mainface] [rm] [serif] [cambria]  [default]
> >>\definetypeface [mainface] [ss] [sans]  [corbel]   [default] [rscale=auto]
> >>\definetypeface [mainface] [tt] [mono]  [consolas] [default] [rscale=auto]
> >>\definetypeface [mainface] [mm] [math]  [cambria]  [default]
> >>
> >>
> >>which works fine, except for consolas. Shouldn't consolas be defined like
> >>
> >>\starttypescript [mono] [consolas] [name]
> >>   \setups[\s!font:\s!fallback:\s!sans]
> >>        \definefontsynonym [\s!Mono]           [\s!file:consola]  [\s!features=\s!default]
> >>        \definefontsynonym [\s!MonoBold]       [\s!file:consolab] [\s!features=\s!default]
> >>        \definefontsynonym [\s!MonoItalic]     [\s!file:consolai] [\s!features=\s!default]
> >>        \definefontsynonym [\s!MonoBoldItalic] [\s!file:consolaz] [\s!features=\s!default]
> >>    \stoptypescript
> >>
> >>instead of
> >>
> >>Sans.... ? It's much more a monospace font then a Sans.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Patrick
> >
> >It seems, the ClearType fonts come with different filenames, so I had to define them by name like Cambria is in type-otf (\definefontsynonym [CambriaSerif] [name:cambria]):
> 
> btw, we need to make decisions here ... in tex live such fonts get
> different names so do we follow that convention or do we opt for the
> official files

TeXLive would never have those particular fonts, I'm not sure if they
are available from font retailers, though (I still think font name is
safer).

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-01 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-30 19:01 Consolas Patrick Gundlach
2010-10-01 10:42 ` Consolas Florian Wobbe
2010-10-01 21:26   ` Consolas Hans Hagen
2010-10-01 21:34     ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2010-10-01 21:41     ` Consolas Florian Wobbe
2010-10-01 21:57       ` Consolas Hans Hagen

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