From: Andreas Schneider <aksdb@gmx.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: SimpleFonts: no italic and bold
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:36:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9C2157.6070107@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9713DA82-E03A-4F9D-9110-1C68772A1D75@googlemail.com>
On 17.10.2011 14:00, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Important for simplefonts are the entries in the first colums, you can use
>
> \setmainfont[telegrotesk][regularfont=* nor,boldfont=* fett]
>
> to enable the font.
Ah, that is what I was looking for. Bold works now! Thank you! :-)
There's still one problem though: italic doesn't work. I guess the font
doesn't provide that feature by itself, but can it be emulated/enabled?
>
>> > The --info output for normal ...
>> > mtx-fonts | family : telegrotesknor
>> >
>> > ... and bold:
>> > mtx-fonts | family : telegroteskfet
>> >
>> > What would be the preferred way to setup the font in this scenario?
> As you can see from this two entries the fonts internal names are a mess,
> both should be “family: telegrotesk” for a proper names font but this isn’t
> the case here and the reason why automatic detection fails.
AFAIK the font was designed by URW who I would expect to do better than
that ... but well, it's an old font and maybe it was done in a hurry :D
--
Best Regards,
Andreas Schneider
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-17 11:38 Andreas Schneider
2011-10-17 12:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-17 12:36 ` Andreas Schneider [this message]
2011-10-17 12:46 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-17 13:03 ` Andreas Schneider
2011-10-17 14:49 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-18 6:41 ` Andreas Schneider
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