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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How to test font availability?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:01:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FEDDC3.3030103@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20081022T064642-644@post.gmane.org>

Ruini Xue wrote:
> I want to define sans to A.ttf, and if A.ttf is unavailable, B.ttf will be 
> used. So the question is, how to test whether a font is available? Or is it 
> possible to provide a list of candidates (e.g., 
> \definefontsynonym[sans][name:A.ttf;name:B.ttf])?

you can do something

\doiffontpresentelse{A} {
	\definefontsynonym[sans][A]
} {
	\definefontsynonym[sans][B]
}

i guess that this also works

\expanded{\definefontsynonym[sans][\doiffontpresentelse{A}{A}{B}]}



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      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-22  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-22  6:49 Ruini Xue
2008-10-22  8:01 ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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