From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21284 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[2]: How to override a font in a typescript Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:12:40 +0200 Message-ID: <4710443654.20050708181240@iol.it> References: <1589849886.20050708105123@iol.it> <42CE4810.9020203@wxs.nl> <2810454257.20050708133750@iol.it> <42CE7347.1020804@wxs.nl> <1016414046.20050708152410@iol.it> <20050708135114.7320@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <752300152.20050708162555@iol.it> <42CE90A4.4060200@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120839254 23508 80.91.229.2 (8 Jul 2005 16:14:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 08 18:14:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqvTp-0006cD-9j for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:13:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FACB1288A; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:13:33 +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 14430-01-3; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:13:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE0812881; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:13:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCCA91287A for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:13:27 +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 14430-01-2 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:13:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp0.libero.it (smtp0.libero.it [193.70.192.33]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8230712881 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:13:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (172.16.1.84) by smtp0.libero.it (7.2.060.1) id 42CD32770004ADC6 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:13:26 +0200 Original-Received: from OBLOMOV (151.44.118.126) by smtp1.libero.it (7.0.027-DD01) id 42C16E57004CF310 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:13:25 +0200 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.5.25) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <42CE90A4.4060200@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at libero.it serv5 X-Virus-Scanned: 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21284 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21284 Friday, July 8, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>>\definetypescriptsynonym[modern][courier] >> >> That's quite a hack, but if there is no other choice ... > but a valid one; well, the idea is that oen can combine fonts, so ... Not so valid at all. For example, it doesn't allow me to reset the scale factor. I really think we need a way to overrule single selections within a typescript without resorting to file synonyms. > btw, why don't you want to install latin modern? the > monospaced variant combines well with palatino; of course > one has to play with rscale a bit (i'm amazed about the > amount of tex docs and books on the web that have funny > relative scaling) Because I want to try something different. Plus, if I didn't, you wouldn't notice where the typescript mechanism would need to be extended to provide more flexibility :) >> Actually I was thinking about something like Lucida Console >> ... provided that I manage to set it up :) > what platform? there is a myway on that; we can add the metrics to the (windows) > font zip file if needed I'm on Windows XP. Anyway, now I'm having a look at the Luxi fonts. Look interesting. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta