From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42015 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: fonts (in luatex) (again) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:06:50 +0200 Message-ID: <48694AEA.6020900@wxs.nl> References: <441B3D72-7906-465D-881E-2A821D1CBFC5@di.unito.it> <1214675743.7122.23.camel@elbereth> <82AFE03A-ADC3-452A-9D96-5E4877B52C9E@di.unito.it> 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 1214860114 23505 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2008 21:08:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:08:34 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 30 23:09:20 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 1KDQch-0000Oq-LY for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:09:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479EF1FC45; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:08:26 +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 27875-02-6; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:07:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3421FC0B; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:07:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F511FB5B for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:07:33 +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 29634-01-4 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:06:51 +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 C74811FC45 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:06:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 16689-1840426 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:06:50 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <82AFE03A-ADC3-452A-9D96-5E4877B52C9E@di.unito.it> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 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:42015 Archived-At: 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 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________