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From: Willi Egger <context@boede.nl>
To: NTG-Context ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Fonts... bold smallcaps
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:20:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B09062F-0107-4CB3-A0BD-A931C746E36E@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99A94056-4DF1-4A48-920C-979B12A3323B@elvenkind.com>

Wolfgang and Taco,

thank you for this!

Tac, the font Seravek I have is a bought font from processtype.

Willi
> On 8 okt. 2015, at 12:24, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 08 Oct 2015, at 12:09, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Willi Egger  8. Oktober 2015 um 11:40
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> sorry for bothering you with this.
>>> 
>>> I have a font Seravek-Regular.otf and Seravek-Bold.otf. It is actually my company font.
>>> 
>>> Now I needed to use bold-smallcaps. But I can not get it working, though otfinfo tells, that in the bold font there are smallcaps
>>> 
>>> In my typescript file I have the following two lines, from which the Regular variant works perfectly well.
>>> 
>>> \definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [Seravek-Regular] [features=smallcaps]
>>> \definefontsynonym [SansBoldCaps] [Seravek-Bold] [features=smallcaps]
>>> 
>>> I tried to get bold smallcaps with \bf\sc but without success.
> 
> SansBoldCaps does not have a ‘short form’, afaik.
> 
>>> Can anyone point me what to do?
>> \bf\setsmallcaps
> 
> (or \let\sc\setsmallcaps, somewhere in the setup section, which is what I usually do).
> 
> Note that this method does not need nor use the SansCaps and SansBoldCaps synonyms in the typescript, and that it only works for well-behaved opentype fonts. Oh, and it may give you italic smallcaps, something the old ’SansCaps’ based method never did.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Taco
> 
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-08 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-08  9:40 Willi Egger
2015-10-08 10:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-10-08 10:24   ` Taco Hoekwater
2015-10-08 13:20     ` Willi Egger [this message]
2015-10-09 15:06       ` Alan BRASLAU

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