teletype style in type-win.mkiv

teletype style in type-win.mkiv

[Richard Stephens]

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Hello all,

I'm afraid I've never spent the time to understand fonts properly, I just
make do with the defaults most of the time. Now, however, I am being forced
to use company default fonts for some documents. I have got as far as using
the following commands to setup my body font:

\usetypescriptfile[type-win]
\usetypescript[arial]
\setupbodyfont[arial, 10pt]

But the teletype style now has no effect: e.g. using {\tt teletype} gives
the same font as normal, and \showbodyfont reveals the same.

I've tried making sense of the type-win.mkiv file but it's beyond me! Any
suggestions how to get \tt to use Courier New, for instance?

Thanks,

Richard

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Re: teletype style in type-win.mkiv

[Hans Hagen]

On 2-6-2011 3:57, Richard Stephens wrote:

> I've tried making sense of the type-win.mkiv file but it's beyond me! Any
> suggestions how to get \tt to use Courier New, for instance?

\setupbodyfont[mcore]

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Re: teletype style in type-win.mkiv

[Richard Stephens]

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On 2 June 2011 15:26, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 2-6-2011 3:57, Richard Stephens wrote:
>
>  I've tried making sense of the type-win.mkiv file but it's beyond me! Any
>> suggestions how to get \tt to use Courier New, for instance?
>>
>
> \setupbodyfont[mcore]
>
>
Sorry Hans, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do with that command.
Anyway, I have found another way around the problem. I have removed the
typescript and font commands for Arial and replaced them with:

\setupbodyfont[helvetica, 10pt]

which is indistinguishable from Arial for 99% of the population, and it has
the advantage that all the styles are already defined, including \tt.

Richard

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Re: teletype style in type-win.mkiv

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Richard Stephens wrote:

> On 2 June 2011 15:26, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>> On 2-6-2011 3:57, Richard Stephens wrote:
>>
>>  I've tried making sense of the type-win.mkiv file but it's beyond me! Any
>>> suggestions how to get \tt to use Courier New, for instance?
>>>
>>
>> \setupbodyfont[mcore]
>>
>>
> Sorry Hans, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do with that command.

There was a typo there. It should be

\setupbodyfont[mscore]

MkIV defines a typescript for microsoft core fonts called mscore. In 
recent version of context, you don't need to specify \setuptypescript, 
\setupbodyfont does that for you. So, just include that command on the top 
of your file, and it should work.

Aditya
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Re: teletype style in type-win.mkiv

[Pontus Lurcock]

On Thu 02 Jun 2011, Richard Stephens wrote:

> \setupbodyfont[helvetica, 10pt]
>
> which is indistinguishable from Arial for 99% of the population, and
> it has the advantage that all the styles are already defined,
> including \tt.

Anyone who can distinguish Helvetica from Arial is likely to have
sufficient taste to realize that Helvetica is superior ;-).

Pont
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Re: teletype style in type-win.mkiv

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 02.06.2011 um 22:56 schrieb Pontus Lurcock:

> On Thu 02 Jun 2011, Richard Stephens wrote:
> 
>> \setupbodyfont[helvetica, 10pt]
>> 
>> which is indistinguishable from Arial for 99% of the population, and
>> it has the advantage that all the styles are already defined,
>> including \tt.
> 
> Anyone who can distinguish Helvetica from Arial is likely to have
> sufficient taste to realize that Helvetica is superior ;-).

But you can have somebody how takes a look at the font list
in Adobe Reader and complains that you don’t use Arial.

ConTeXt has predefined typescripts for Times New Roman,
Arial and Courier but they don’t work on each system
(e.g. the fonts use different filenames on the Mac).

The simplefonts module makes things a little bit easier
because it tries a few combinations to find the files
but it still depends on the filename.

\usemodule[simplefonts]

\setmainfont[Arial]
\setmonofont[Courier New]

\starttext
This Arial in combination with {\tt Courier New}.
\stoptext

The spec-system is another system to make font loading
easier but the quality of the result depends on the font
information which are sometimes a mess.

\definetypeface[mainface][ss][specsans][Arial]
\definetypeface[mainface][tt][specmono][Courier New]

\setupbodyfont[mainface]

\starttext
This Arial in combination with {\tt Courier New}.
\stoptext

Wolfgang
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