From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35917 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: mimimal typescripting Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:14:21 +0200 Message-ID: <46BF15BD.4000307@wxs.nl> References: <789799294.20070812043455@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186928081 32092 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2007 14:14:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:14:41 +0000 (UTC) To: Yatskovsky , mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Aug 12 16:14:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IKEDH-0002Va-Re for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:14:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A671203E9; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:14:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15669-03-18; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:14:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5287C203E3; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:14:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF677203E3 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:14:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15669-03-17 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:14:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75493203E1 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:14:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 9420 for multiple; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:14:30 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <789799294.20070812043455@gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:35917 Archived-At: 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________