From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39421 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XeTeX: faked bold & slanted + request for ppc users Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:26:15 +0100 Message-ID: <47D439D7.3050202@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00803090828v6fb74397xd52f5de52f9da3c4@mail.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: ger.gmane.org 1205150834 13494 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 12:07:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:07:14 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 10 13:07:41 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 1JYgmg-0003eL-5A for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:07:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE03A1FB29; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:06:39 +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 29092-01-16; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:06:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D4020031; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:11:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24911FE0A for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:11:18 +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 07251-03-64 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:10:50 +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 A187D2013D for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:26:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 4693 for ; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:26:41 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00803090828v6fb74397xd52f5de52f9da3c4@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:39421 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > I just wanted to let you know that XeTeX now supports both faking bold > and slanted (and the binaries on the garden minimals have that feature > already). It's generally a bad idea to use it, but in case that you > need it only for small portions of text (if you really have no other > way out), it could be handy. (Slanted is less evil to use than > "bold".) > The plain syntax is: > > \font\a="Gentium" > \font\b="Gentium:slant=0.2" % better: \font\b="Gentium/I" > \font\c="Gentium:embolden=2" > \font\d="Gentium:embolden=2;slant=0.2" hm, so it's embolden? in that case we need a remap to extend > Some time ago I have posted an example of the (current?) ConTeXt way to use it: > > \definefontfeature > [slantedandextended] > % cloned from the rest of XeTeX, not really needed > [method=node,script=latn,language=dflt,liga=yes,onum=yes,kern=yes, > slant=0.25,extend=1.5] i remember that taco and i discussed it with regards to luatex (i think that we even had a key in the tfm table at some point); i need to look into it > \definefontsynonym > [myfont] > [file:texgyrepagella-regular][features=slantedandextended] > > \starttext > \definedfont[myfont] This is slanted and extended > \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________