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From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Apparent error in wiki example
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:28:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130226152852.458fb055@localb.wexfordpress.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130226183303.GA15899@phlegethon.router_intern>

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:33:03 +0100
Philipp Gesang <philipp.gesang@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

> Hi John!
> 
> ···<date: 2013-02-26, Tuesday>···<from: john Culleton>···
> 
> >  I copied verbatim the example found here:
> > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Typescript_Example
> > 
> > This line caused an error:
> > \setupencoding[default=uc]
> 
> These are instructions for MkII (and PostScript Type 1 fonts).
> You are most likely running MkIV (with an Open Type version of
> your font). How to write a typescript for OpenType Fonts is
> explained in the manual:
> 
>   http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-fonts.pdf
> 
> Btw. are you aware of Termes, which is an updated version of
> Nimbus? It also comes bundled with and configured for Context.
> Try
> 
>   \setupbodyfont[termes,10pt]
>   \starttext whatever \stoptext
> 
> Regards
> Philipp
> 
> 


Thanks for your help. I just spotted another somewhat comic error.
The typescript for Sans calls roman fonts and the typescript for
Roman calls sans fonts. 

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-26 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-26 17:57 john Culleton
2013-02-26 18:33 ` Philipp Gesang
2013-02-26 20:28   ` john Culleton [this message]
2013-02-26 21:28     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-02-26 21:45       ` Philipp Gesang
2013-02-26 21:54       ` john Culleton

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