* definetypeface usage
@ 2004-07-05 11:48 dr. Hans van der Meer
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From: dr. Hans van der Meer @ 2004-07-05 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
Trying to findout how ConTeXt's font mechanism works, I come to
following question:
From the brochure "Fonts in Context" (mfonts.pdf) I have picked up the
notion that exercising a call to \definetypeface gets fonts in working
order (see the examples there on font specifiers "funny" and "whow",
for example, and the resulting typeface collection).
Also in file type-exa.tex there is a typescript [postscript] where
\definetypeface is exercised, seemingly to bring a matched series of
times, helvetica and courier into existence.
However, the usage of the postscript fonts via \setupbodyfont[pos]
seems to be completely unconnected with this script (I traced the
typescript checking). Neither can I find somany calls to
\definetypeface (and its derivatives \dodefinetypeface and
\dododefinetypeface); it seems they are barely used in the code.
So, the questions are:
- Does \setupbodyfont[pos] results in the scaled font set as given in
type-exa?
- Or does \definetypeface belong to an alternative/obsolete font
definition scheme, totally unrelated to the definitions called up in
the scripts in type-pre.tex, type-syn.tex, and other friends?
- In preparing font scripts, can I therefore totally ignore
\definetypeface or will that be disastrous for the result?
If somebody would be so kind to enlighten me...
Hans van der Meer
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