Re: fonts (in luatex) (again)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Andrea Valle wrote:
> Thanks Charles
> 
> A praise from the heart to the devs.
> Wouldn't be possibile to support font selection like in XeTeX?
> This would make thing really a lot easier for sublunar users like me.
> 
> Really, the whole process it's damn' complicated: no one a part 2 or 3 
> seems to know the details :)

depends on where you come from ...

\font\whatever=somename<with xetex spec>

should kind of work in luatex

anyhow, the main idea behind the context font system is that one creates 
combinations with symbolic names and then can use those names also 
elsewhere (e.g. using SerifBold when defining a titlepage); if you don't 
use math and just one style, definitions are real simple, but in 
practice you define a combination (serif/sans, mono, math)

you can predefine such a set, give it a name, and then reuse it for 
every document you want; there are a few examples of such typescripts

\usetypescript[palatino][texnansi]

\setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt]

less commands make no sense

any systems takes time to get accustomed to and tex is somewhat 
complicated by the fact that math definitions are part of the game as 
well as that we might want to conbine fonts.

Hans

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