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From: Sander Maijers <S.N.Maijers@student.ru.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Typefaces ... how does this work?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:41:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BA045F.6020205@student.ru.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsARs_V3yba_nqA=4b2d_=A1NCnSuGrkyy_mDPzy8E_vKQ@mail.gmail.com>


On 12-06-13 23:33, luigi scarso wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Sander Maijers
> <S.N.Maijers@student.ru.nl <mailto:S.N.Maijers@student.ru.nl>> wrote:
>
>     I want to adjust my document to have Lucida as main typeface, but
>     with brief passages (a few words at most) in a typeface that has the
>     IPA glyphs like Gentium.
>
>     I've skimmed the manual and the ConTeXt garden Wiki but I do not yet
>     understand which commands I should use where and with which options
>     to achieve this -- preferably in a concise way.
>
>     Could someone please explain and point out what most current
>     documentation I should read and in which order to fully understand
>     how to work with typography in ConTexT? (Obviously I am not a
>     typographer or typesetter, I just write documents.)
>
>     I am in a hurry now to complete my document so I would appreciate
>     concrete hints to help with my current need. Still, I am interested
>     to learn a lot about this functionality in the long term.
>
> Do you know the simplefonts module ?

I had read about it some time ago, but I had not yet noticed this Wiki 
page : 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTeX#How_LuaTeX_handles_system_fonts

How can I select a different typeface (that can be found by simplefonts) 
for a specific region of text, like a few words?

> --
> luigi
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-13 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-12 21:31 Sander Maijers
2013-06-12 21:33 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-13 17:41   ` Sander Maijers [this message]
2013-06-13 17:55     ` S Barmeier
2013-06-13 18:02     ` Pablo Rodríguez
2013-06-13 18:20       ` Pablo Rodríguez
2013-06-14  0:30 ` Bill Meahan

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