From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "Gour D." <gour@atmarama.net>
Subject: Re: simplefonts or Typecripts
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:58:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C656BBF.2080601@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100813130348.7af18ec9@atmarama.noip.me>
On 13-8-2010 1:03, Gour D. wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'd like to (finally) dive into ConTeXt (MkIV) using it for everything
> and stop using LyX/LaTeX...ConText is installed via
> context-minimals-git package on Archlinux (thank you Aditya).
>
> The 'Using fonts' section on wiki says:
>
> Handling fonts in LuaTeX can be done
>
> * in a simple but limited way, using the simplefonts module;
> * in the standard way, using TypeScripts
>
> and I've tried example with Delicious font (too bad there is no
> Croatian characters available) and it works.
>
> Considering I never learnt TypeScripts mechanism (and managed to
> forget most of ConteXr I knew when fiddling with it some years ago), I
> wonder if 'simplefonts' is THE way to go with fonts in MkIV and/or is
> there something one may miss by not using TypeScripts mechanism?
it depends ... simplefonts uses some heuristics and therefore can make
it easier but not all fonts fit into a systematic approach
for a long time project making a few typescripts (just use those defined
at the end of type-otf.mkiv as template) and using file: is more robust
esp as it will nicely fail when something fundamental has changed (names
or so)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-13 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-13 11:03 Gour D.
2010-08-13 15:58 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2010-08-13 16:50 ` Gour D.
2010-08-13 19:11 ` Gour D.
2010-08-13 20:35 ` other markup to ConTeXt (was: simplefonts or Typecripts) Henning Hraban Ramm
2010-08-13 22:56 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-08-14 5:19 ` other markup to ConTeXt Gour D.
2010-08-14 9:23 ` Philipp Gesang
2010-08-14 9:31 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-08-14 9:50 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-14 9:52 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-14 10:23 ` Philipp Gesang
2010-08-14 12:47 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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