From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17261 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: low level fonts Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:49 +0100 Message-ID: <41A5CC05.7050005@wxs.nl> References: <20041125104109.18456@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101384733 14463 80.91.229.6 (25 Nov 2004 12:12:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 25 13:11:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CXITc-0007TV-00 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB06F12792; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11193-08; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F621276B; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657451276B for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11365-02 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E20126F8 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAPCBmT5008317 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:48 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 2F43617CA3; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07FC17AAF for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:11:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20041125104109.18456@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/540/Tue Oct 19 14:59:23 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17261 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17261 Adam Lindsay wrote: > hi all. > > what's your best way of getting the current font name, regardless of how > it's set (e.g., typescript, unicode, definedfont, low-level \font > definitions...)? > > I certainly know about \truefontname{}, but what to put in the braces? tex: \fontname\font also in context: \purefontname\font \font\myfont AdamBold at 123pt \fontname \myfont -> AdamBold at 123pt \purefontname\myfont -> AdamBold so, \definefont[Whatever][\purefontname{\font} at 24.56pt] is probably what you're looking for Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------