Re: font switching questions

[Alan Stone <software.list.1es9s@gmail.com>]

2009/3/19 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>:
>
> Am 18.03.2009 um 16:26 schrieb Alan Stone:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> (there's also Normal, Bold etc that is even more generic in the sense that
>> it can be sans or serif depending of the situation)
>
>
> Read and understand!

Thanks for your comments Wolfgang.

Hope they're useful and beneficial to other people.

The example I adapted and was enquiring about was in the context of
what Hans replied earlier...

>(there's also Normal, Bold etc that is even more generic in the sense that it can be sans or
>serif depending of the situation)

Hans, does what you meant by the above correspond to Wolfgang's
example or did you mean something else ? If so, what precisely please
?

Thanks,
Alan

>
> % Typescript for Arial
>
> \starttypescript [sans] [arial]
>    \setups [font:fallback:sans]
>    \definefontsynonym [Sans]           [ArialNormal]
>    \definefontsynonym [SansItalic]     [ArialItalic]
>    \definefontsynonym [SansBold]       [ArialBold]
>    \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [ArialBoldItalic]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript [sans] [arial]
>    \definefontsynonym [ArialNormal]     [name:arial]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [ArialItalic]     [name:arialitalic]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [ArialBold]       [name:arialbold]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [ArialBoldItalic] [name:arialbolditalic]
> [features=default]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript [arial]
>    \definetypeface [arial] [ss] [sans] [arial] [default]
> \stoptypescript
>
> % Load the Arial typescript for certain elements
>
> \usetypescript[sans][arial]
>
> % Load the main typescripts and set the font for the document
>
> \usetypescript[palatino]
> \setupbodyfont[palatino]
>
>
> % Define a new font for the header and set it
>
> \definefont[SectionStyle][ArialBold sa 1.5] % Symbolic name for Arial
>
> \setuphead[section][style=SectionStyle]
>
> \starttext
>
> \section{Knuth}
>
> \input Knuth
>
> \section{Zapf}
>
> \input zapf
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
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