From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Yatskovsky <yatskovsky@gmail.com>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: mimimal typescripting
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:14:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46BF15BD.4000307@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <789799294.20070812043455@gmail.com>
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering why before defining a typeface I must define a synonym for it. For example, my minimal working definition for Vladimir Script fontface is
>
> \starttypescript [serif] [vladimirscript]
> \definefontsynonym [Serif][name:vladimir][features=default]
> \stoptypescript
> \starttypescript [vladimirscript]
> \definetypeface [vladimirscript] [rm] [serif] [vladimirscript] [default]
> \stoptypescript
>
> Being XeTeX-adherent, it is a pain for me write that all for every font I use. Why I cannot specify it as simply as
>
> \starttypescript [vladimirscript]
> \definetypeface [vladimirscript] [rm] [serif] [name:vladimir] [default]
> \stoptypescript
>
> or better just
>
> \definetypeface [vladimirscript] [rm] [serif] [name:vladimir] [default]
>
> without any synonyms?
>
depends if you want to access the individual fonts later on, some fonts
come with 20 variants and only a few are used in a typeface then but you
still may want to access the rest with symbolic names
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.754.1186866351.2346.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2007-08-12 1:07 ` em = slanted? Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-08-12 4:08 ` luigi scarso
2007-08-12 5:47 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-08-12 14:12 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] ` <alpine.WNT.0.999.0708121204180.2624@nqvgln>
2007-08-12 22:00 ` Hans Hagen
2007-08-12 1:34 ` mimimal typescripting Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-08-12 14:14 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2007-08-12 15:20 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-08-12 17:41 ` Hans Hagen
2007-08-13 15:20 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-08-14 5:52 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-08-14 10:35 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-08-14 13:17 ` Taco Hoekwater
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