From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/60911 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: simplefonts or Typecripts Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:58:55 +0200 Message-ID: <4C656BBF.2080601@wxs.nl> References: <20100813130348.7af18ec9@atmarama.noip.me> 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 1281715163 23084 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2010 15:59:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:59:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Gour D." To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Aug 13 17:59:19 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 1Ojwf5-000349-PN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:59:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5EACA43A; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:59:15 +0200 (CEST) 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 7qkVFQ02l2Zc; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:59:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25504CA43C; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:59:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C00ACA43C for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:59:11 +0200 (CEST) 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 eagg2nq+MSbf for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:58:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (sc-162.r-213-125-29.schoolconnect.nu [213.125.29.162]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2564CA43A for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:58:59 +0200 (CEST) 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 pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 5879-1713362 for multiple; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:57:11 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.6 ThunderBrowse/3.3.1 In-Reply-To: <20100813130348.7af18ec9@atmarama.noip.me> 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:60911 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________