From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39339 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font question Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:54:46 +0100 Message-ID: <47C87116.4080209@wxs.nl> References: <20080229194224.GB18957@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> 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: ger.gmane.org 1204318617 26742 80.91.229.12 (29 Feb 2008 20:56:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:56:57 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Feb 29 21:57:23 2008 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 1JVCI3-0005zw-Cu for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:57:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1C51FC6B; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:56:38 +0100 (CET) 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 15780-02; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:55:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149511FC0D; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:55:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4AD1FC0D for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:55:55 +0100 (CET) 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 15712-07-8 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:55:20 +0100 (CET) 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 AD4451FBB9 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:55:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 2339 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:55:20 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <20080229194224.GB18957@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> 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:39339 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm going to start using ConTeXt; I've been planning to do so for a few > years, but now I finally have Internet access at home, so it's easier > for me to look things up in the wiki (or ask here;)). > > I have two questions. The first one is connected with fonts. I can't > understand ConTeXt's font mechanism, which seems way too complicated for > me; could anyone just tell me how I can switch to, e.g., Antykwa > Poltawskiego (I'm Polish, so I'd like to use it;)) or, say, Pagella? Of > course, I'd also like to be able to typeset Polish texts with them; will \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] \usetypescript[palatino][qx] \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] > \enableregime[utf-8] > \mainlanguage[pl] > be enough (apart, of course, from adapting ConTeXt to Polish typography > customs, like dots after chapter numbers etc.)? that should be set up already (\mainlanguage does that) > I think that that's what the wiki lacks: a beginner's guide on _using_ > fonts (not _installing_ them or _messing_;) with them). If someone > enlightens me on this, I could write something on the wiki about it. most free fonts that ship with tex live are already set up (and you can make combinations of them, which is what typefaces is about) it mostly bpild down to choosing a proper font encoding (qx in your case) > And the second, a bit "philosophical" question: the official manual is > not so new. How do I learn ConTeXt best? I mean, are changes to the > user interface since 2001 so big that I could run into troubles using > the manual? Or are there some changes which make something > easier/possible which was difficult/impossible at the time or writing > the manual - how do I learn about these? no changes to the user interface, only additional features (often discussed in dedicated manuals) 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________