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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How to define fallback font for symbols
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:52:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DFB07BF.5040200@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinuSpg2Ce=kwEvAhjcH=v=gdH1J-g@mail.gmail.com>

On 17-6-2011 9:43, Vianney le Clément wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to set a fallback font from which glyphs will be taken
> if the current font doesn't have it? For example, I'd want to use
> fancy miscellaneous symbols from the Symbola font using their unicode
> codepoint without any extra font-changing command (and obviously, I
> don't want to use Symbola for the rest of the text).
>
> Alternatively, setting different fonts for different unicode blocks
> would also do the trick.

comment from source:

% \definefontfallback [whatever] [Slanted]     [0x0060-0x007F] [force=yes]
% \definefontfallback [whatever] [Bold] 
[0x0080:0x00FF,0x00A0:0x00AF] [rscale=2.0]
% \definefontfallback [whatever] [BoldSlanted] ["00C0-"00C7] 
[check=yes,force=yes]
% \definefontfallback [whatever] [Mono]        [latinextendeda] 
[force=yes] % 0x0100:0x017F
% \definefontfallback [whatever] [Mono]        [latin extended a] 
[force=yes] % 0x0100:0x017F
%
% \definefontsynonym[SerifPlus][Serif][fallbacks=whatever]
%
% \showfont[SerifPlus][all]

% \definefontfeature[zh][mode=node,script=hang,lang=zhs]
% \definefontfallback[serifwhatever]          [lmroman10-regular] 
[0x0000-0x0400][force=yes]
% \definefontfallback[serifboldwhatever]      [lmroman10-bold] 
[0x0000-0x0400][force=yes]
% \definefontfallback[serifitalicwhatever]    [lmroman10-italic] 
[0x0000-0x0400][force=yes]
% 
\definefontfallback[serifbolditalicwhatever][lmroman10-bolditalic][0x0000-0x0400][force=yes]
%
% \starttypescript [serif] [zhfont]
%    \definefontsynonym [zhserif]          [AdobeSongStd-Light] 
[features=zh,fallbacks=serifwhatever]
%    \definefontsynonym [zhserifbold] 
[AdobeHeitiStd-Regular][features=zh,fallbacks=serifboldwhatever]
%    \definefontsynonym [zhserifitalic] 
[AdobeKaitiStd-Regular][features=zh,fallbacks=serifitalicwhatever]
%    \definefontsynonym 
[zhserifbolditalic][AdobeHeitiStd-Regular][features=zh,fallbacks=serifbolditalicwhatever]
% \stoptypescript
%
% \starttypescript [serif][zhfont][name]
%    \definefontsynonym[Serif]             [zhserif]             % 
[fallbacks=serifwhatever]
%    \definefontsynonym[SerifBold]         [zhserifbold]         % 
[fallbacks=serifboldwhatever]
%    \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic]       [zhserifitalic]       % 
[fallbacks=serifitalicwhatever]
%    \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic]   [zhserifbolditalic]   % 
[fallbacks=serifbolditalicwhatever]
% \stoptypescript
%
% \starttypescript[myfont]
%    \definetypeface[myfont][rm][serif][zhfont]
% \stoptypescript
%
% \usetypescript[myfont] \setupbodyfont[myfont,rm,12pt]
%
% \starttext
%   fonts {\bf fonts} {\bi fonts} {\it fonts}
% \stoptext


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-17  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-17  7:43 Vianney le Clément
2011-06-17  7:52 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-06-17  8:42   ` Vianney le Clément
2011-06-17  7:59 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-17 11:19 ` Wolfgang Schuster

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