From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/57080 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: simplefonts Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:59:02 +0100 Message-ID: <4B9CEBA6.4010301@wxs.nl> References: <54d7f5601003140612q60e57ccctc1dba0df39454a32@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"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268575190 32355 80.91.229.12 (14 Mar 2010 13:59:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Saunders To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Mar 14 14:59:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqoM5-0008CG-76 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:59:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B40C9D15; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:59:44 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id LIwd+BJS19Ev; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:59:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7914AC9CC3; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:59:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402A0C9CC3 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:59:41 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id OEN0X3bv1OHa for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:59:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (unknown [217.121.8.199]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1717CC9CBE for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:59:39 +0100 (CET) X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-9 (SurgeMail 4.2d2) with ESMTP id 2680-1713362 for multiple; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:58:44 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 In-Reply-To: <54d7f5601003140612q60e57ccctc1dba0df39454a32@mail.gmail.com> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:57080 Archived-At: On 14-3-2010 14:12, Michael Saunders wrote: > Thomas A. Schmitz: > > Thank you, Thomas. I've been studying this closely. > >> A typescript file can contain a series of typeface definitions, e.g., one for serif, one for sans, one for mono, one for math, etc. hence the syntax \starttypescript > > [] [] > > I see! So, I'm guessing that it is this which connects the > typescripts to the font switching commands like \rm. My guess is: > switch > serif \rm > sans \ss > mono \tt > math \mm > ?? \hw > ?? \cg > and that Context only permits these six families? it can support as many as you want but only a few make sense you can combine such combinations in typefaces and mix then any way and use multiple such mixtures in one document > (major axis: rm, it, sl, ui; minor axis: rg, ac, sc, sw, in, su, nu, > de, po, pl, to, tl + ornaments, which handles all of the variations > that Adobe makes, anyway). Maybe I'll be able to reproduce it once I > get this working. sounds complex .. it's more like: [typefaceone|typefacetwo|...| [rm|ss|tt|..] [tf|it|..] so if you want a smallcaps set, you'd best do something \definetypeface[Whatever] [....] \definetypeface[WhateverSmallcaps][....] and then switch the lot to smallcaps using a typeface switch (which is quite fast) instead of defining all kind of extra smallcaps instances within the main typeface 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________