From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9314 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Beginners Questions on Fonts Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:36:31 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020918143319.02795fa0@server-1> References: <20020918060001.547df5c6.wmcclain@salamander.com> <20020918083939.GA7674@zargon-client1.chello.at> <20020918060001.547df5c6.wmcclain@salamander.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399653 2226 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:00:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:00:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Peter Sojan In-Reply-To: <20020918115559.GA876@zargon-client1.chello.at> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9314 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9314 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------