From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15647 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "dr. Hans van der Meer" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: definetypeface usage Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:48:35 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <3F1C7339-CE79-11D8-B79D-003065568054@science.uva.nl> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089028489 1134 80.91.224.253 (5 Jul 2004 11:54:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 11:54:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Mon Jul 05 13:54:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BhS3S-0008Lf-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jul 2004 13:54:38 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FDE10B1A; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:54:34 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from smtp.science.uva.nl (smtp.science.uva.nl [146.50.4.84]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC70E10ABD for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:49:08 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from 118-130.uva.surfnetthuis.nl [145.98.118.130] by smtp.science.uva.nl with ESMTP (sendmail 8.11.6p2/config 11.35). id i65Bn7l02782; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:49:07 +0200 X-Organisation: Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands X-URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/ Original-To: NTG ConTeXt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15647 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15647 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