From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7634 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: typescripts faq-in-progress Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:34:02 -0600 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3XYP5354KEKFXTOI82RNNL6E9UQB0.3cb744ba@c1909372-a> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398084 20830 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:34:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7634 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7634 Dear ConTeXtnicians: I'm making progress understanding the typescripts model, though I have still not fully solved my problem. Please help set me straight and to complete and generalize what follows. I'm hoping the following can serve as a template for a ConTeXt font how-to/faq, something which seems to be desperately needed. mfonts.pdf is really obscure for beginners, unfortunately. Given a set of 2 raw fonts, one activates them in ConTeXt through the following 6-part procedure: 1. Determine the style, family, and encoding and write a typescript with a more user-friendly, pretty name for the raw font: \starttypescript [style] [family] [encoding] \definefontsynonym [Pretty] [original] [encoding=theencoding] \definefontsynonym [Pretty-Bold] [originalb] [encoding=theencodingenc] \stoptypescript The [encoding=theencoding] position may be left blank if the encoding is OT1 or 7-bit ascii. Is this correct? 2. There may be other fonts using the same style, so a more generic abstract style name is associated with the font: \starttypescript [style] [family] [name] \definefontsynonym [Style] [Pretty sa 1.6] \definefontsynonym [Style-Bold] [Pretty-Bold sa 1.6] \stoptypescript 3. Set up the appropriate sizes for the fonts with respect to one of the default style parameters, rm, ss, tt, mm, cg, or hw. \starttypescript [style] [default] [size] \definebodyfont [20.7pt, 17.3pt, 14.4pt, 12pt, 11pt, 10pt, 9pt, 8pt, 7pt] [rm] [default] \stoptypescript For what does the `default' option in the 2nd arg. to \starttypescript stand? For what does the `default' option in the 3rd arg. to \definebodyfont stand? Can one associate any style one pleases with, say, [rm], or is there more involved? 4. Combine the generic abstract style and size typescripts into a single font collection: \starttypescript [collect] \usetypescript [style] [family] [name] \usetypescript [style] [default] [size] \stoptypescript 5. Use the collection in a typeface which takes 6 parameters: collection name style parameter style family !not sure what this is! encoding/rscale options \starttypescript [mycollect] \definetypeface [collect] [rm] [style] [family] [default] [encoding=theencoding, rscale=thescalefactor] \stoptypescript What does `rscale' mean? What is the purpose of the style parameter here? This is an importan question because I think the crux of my problem is here as I will explain below. 6. Place the above code into a file type-fam.To use the font issue the following: \usetypescriptfile[type-fam] \usetypescript[mycollect \setupbodyfont[collect] The font should work now. But see below! ======================================================== Now I tried this but it's not working. I have discovered something which may be the source of the bug. 0. My two raw fonts are omarab and omarabb, located in \texmf\fonts\ovf\public\omega of any tex distribution. % type-arabic.tex %1. style, family, and encoding \starttypescript [naskh] [omega] [default] \definefontsynonym [OmegaArabic] [omarab] \definefontsynonym [OmegaArabic-Bold] [omarabb] \stoptypescript %2. abstract style synonyms \starttypescript [naskh] [omega] [name] \definefontsynonym [Naskh] [OmegaArabic sa 1.6] \definefontsynonym [NaskhBold] [OmegaArabic-Bold sa 1.6] \stoptypescript %3. sizes \starttypescript [naskh] [default] [size] \definebodyfont [20.7pt, 17.3pt, 14.4pt, 12pt, 11pt, 10pt, 9pt, 8pt, 7pt] [rm] [default] \stoptypescript %4. final collection \starttypescript [omarab] \usetypescript [naskh] [omega] [name] \usetypescript [naskh] [default] [size] \stoptypescript %5. typeface \starttypescript [arabtest] \definetypeface [omartest] [rm] [naskh] [omega] [default] [rscale=1] % [encoding=default] \stoptypescript %6. invocation \usetypescriptfile[type-arabic] \usetypescript[arabtest] \setupbodyfont[omartest] ========================== When I follow the above steps, this is what happens: ==================== (./om-test4.tuo) (./om-test4.tuo) systems : begin file om-test4 at line 19 typescript : [arabtest] [] [] (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (./type-arabic.tex typeface : [omartest] [rm] [naskh] [omega] typescript : [naskh] [omega] [name,default,default,special] (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (./type-arabic.tex) typescript : [naskh] [default] [size] (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (./type-arabic.tex)) Missing character: There is no ^^^^0242 in font cmr10! : : ====================== cmr10 is being called instead of omarab. But here is a clue: If I replace `[rm]' with `[ss]' in step 3 alone, I get cmr12 called; If I replace `[rm]' with `[ss]' in step 3 and step5, I get cmss10 called; If I replace `[rm]' with `[ss]' in step 5 alone, I get cmr10 called; This all makes me think that I am missing at least one important step above. Can anyone tell us what that is? I am getting really desperate here... Again, I hope some of you will help me to develop this into a more general font faq. Best wishes Idris Dr. Idris Samawi Hamid Depatment of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80526