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At 09:22 PM 9/15/2002 -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>Thanks Hans.  But...this only gets me standard weights and widths.  How
>do I set up, as an example, a semibold, semicondensed font, and access
>it for a chapter title?  Or what about simply a "light" font?  There
>aren't any examples I can find in the documentation or source beyond
>the standard bold, italic, etc.
>
>I assume as a general rule in dealing with an MM font like Myriad one
>would want to distinguish typescripts based on width, but beyond that I
>just don't get it...

just define additional typescript named

... [myriad-semi] ....

and a typeface

    [semiface]

and activate that

   ... style={\switchtobodyfont[semiface]}, ...

Hans

>Bruce
>
> >==== typeface.tex ======
> >
> >\loadmapfile [texnansi-adobe-myriad.map]
> >
> >\starttypescript [sans] [myriad] [name]
> >
> >   \definefontsynonym [Sans]            [Myriad]
> >   \definefontsynonym [SansBold]        [MyriadBold]
> >   \definefontsynonym [SansItalic]      [MyriadItalic]
> >   \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic]  [MyriadBoldItalic]
> >   \definefontsynonym [SansSlanted]     [MyriadItalic]
> >   \definefontsynonym [SansBoldSlanted] [MyriadBoldItalic]
> >   \definefontsynonym [SansCaps]        [Myriad]
> >
> >\stoptypescript
> >
> >\starttypescript [sans] [myriad] [texnansi,ec,8r]
> >
> >   \definefontsynonym
> >[Myriad]           [\typefaceencoding-myriadmm-weight-400-width-600]
> >[encoding=\typefaceencoding]
> >   \definefontsynonym
> >[MyriadBold]       [\typefaceencoding-myriadmm-weight-700-width-600]
> >[encoding=\typefaceencoding]
> >   \definefontsynonym
> >[MyriadItalic]     [\typefaceencoding-myriadmm-it-weight-400-width-600]
> >[encoding=\typefaceencoding]
> >   \definefontsynonym [MyriadBoldItalic]
> >[\typefaceencoding-myriadmm-it-weight-700-width-600]
> >[encoding=\typefaceencoding]
> >
> >\stoptypescript
> >
> >====== main file =====
> >
> >\usetypescriptfile[typeface]
> >
> >\definetypeface [mainface] [ss] [sans] [myriad] [default]
>[encoding=texnansi]
> >
> >\setupbodyfont[mainface,ss,10pt]

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