Re: Beginners Questions on Fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 01:55 PM 9/18/2002 +0200, Peter Sojan wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:00:01AM -0500, Bill McClain wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:39:39 +0200
> > Peter Sojan <ilikeunix@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sorry for this rather stupid questions, but any answer
> > > could help me to gain further insight.
> >
> > Font management made no sense to me until I studied typescripts. I still
> > don't undertstand the internals, but I can install new fonts and manage
> > the ones I have. I've put my notes online at:
> >
> >     http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html
>
>I knew your tutorial already, and with its help I understand
>the rather "low-level" typescripts better than the more "usual"
>font-commands like \definebodyfont or \definefont ...

hm, \definebodyfont just maps filenames (either or not symbolic names that 
resolve in real ones) onto internal names like \bf \sl etc

\definebodyfont[10pt][rm][tf=whatever at 10.2pt]

and alike.

This is only effective after a fresh (\setupbodyfont[reset]) 
\setupbodyfont[10pt].

For the rest, the how and why's of such a system, you need to be aware of 
tex's way of dealing with fonts (esp math complicates the matter).

Hans

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