Re: Font questions once again...

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> I looked a bit at the type-otf.tex file.  At the beginning, it says
> something like "\starttypescriptcollection[examples]".  Typescripts from
> this \start...\stop block work correctly (with the exception of Antykwa
> Torunska).  Typescripts from the outside don't work (with the exception
> of Heros).  

The \starttypescriptcollection command is only relevant if
\preloadtypescripts is given. If that is not the case, you can
forget about it immediately. (and in the other case it is still 
undocumented, but it should not matter)

 > Maybe I should mimick these definitions somehow?  Still, the
> cases of Antykwa Torunska and Heros are mysterious to me.

Answered by Wolfgang.

> The table 1.7 you mentioned is also a bit strange: it mentions palatino
> as "commercial".

You found a bug in the manual, I have corrected the table and uploaded
a new version. Please let me know if it makes more sense now.

> What I was aiming at was: how to (easily) use the fonts "shipped with
> ConTeXt" (i.e., the Minimals).  I would expect them to be usable "out of
> the box"; if they are not, please consider this a bug report/feature
> request;).  In fact, I would expect something like
> \useptypescript[pagella]
> \setupbodyfont[pagella]
> work for the whole collection in the Minimals.

The top-level typescripts provided by Hans are only examples. The
typeface buildingblocks (from the tables in co-fonts.pdf) are all
there, but the combination of those into typescripts (as in the top
of type-otf and type-one) is generally left to the user.

> (BTW, why is pagella called palatino etc?  I guess that some aliases
> could also be default?)

answered by Wolfgang

Best wishes,
Taco
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