From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43935 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: One very silly question Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:11:02 +0200 Message-ID: <48CA1606.1090605@wxs.nl> References: <68bfdc900809110821p18fa137cl77c0829c230f224f@mail.gmail.com> <48C94B39.9080002@wxs.nl> <68bfdc900809112313w2ea5a403s2a6c622af94190bf@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 1221203558 30253 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2008 07:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:12:38 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Sep 12 09:13:33 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 1Ke2qR-0000XC-Pc for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:13:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D941FF5D; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:12:29 +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 04288-01-4; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:11:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73D71FE57; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:11:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD6A1FE57 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:11:35 +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 32310-03-5 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:11:01 +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 BD79C1FCE3 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:11:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 18625-1840426 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:11:01 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <68bfdc900809112313w2ea5a403s2a6c622af94190bf@mail.gmail.com> 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:43935 Archived-At: Yue Wang wrote: > last question: is it possible to add fontconfig-like interface? if I > define to use minion famaily, then all the alternatives are > automatically defined like xetex? i never looked into that interface so i cannot comment on it, but i've learned my lessons with fonts ... they are all different and any 'clever automated mechanism' will at some point fail, so then one ends up with exeptions; when defining a document style one needs to know the font, its usage (what variants, styles, etc) and often also it slimitations (font feature are not that well defined and fonts might have incomplete implementations) the best one can do is make a typescript (or a collection, as with tex gyre which tries to be consistent over the whole range) that implements a definition and even then, a different version of a font (i mostly use commercial fonts and font ABC may have different implementations) may hav edifferent properties; also, there is not one good usage (typescript combination) of a specific font, esp now that we have many features actually, talking about features, you need to keep in mind that even when you define a specific instance, applying such an instance to a whole document might fail because some features may not cover the whole possible set of combinations of characters (take frac as an example) and so usage demands knowlegde eventually we may have a set of predefined typescripts that cover most system 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________