Re: Selecting fonts using the built-in simplefonts module

["Jörg Weger" <joerg73.muc@googlemail.com>]

On 29.03.2015 19:47, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> Am 29.03.2015 um 14:40 schrieb Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com
>> <mailto:pavneet_arora@waroc.com>>:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> After a long time I have some typesetting work in front of me...yippeee!
>>
>> I am struggling with adapting my templates to the new integrated
>> simplefonts module, and hope that someone can help.
>>
>> The three issues I am having are:
>>
>> 1.  How does one find the proper expanded long name of the desired font.
>>    For this project, I am using some fonts from The League of Moveable
>>    Type (https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/).
>>
>>    I have reloaded the fonts, and can list them, in the traditional
>>    manner.  What I don't know is how to find the proper name for---say
>>    Junction Light---to use as the third argument in
>>    '\definefontfamily[mainface][ss][Junction Light]'
>>
>>    The use of 'Junction Light' doesn't work, and neither does
>>    'Junction-Light', nor 'junctionlight', nor even 'Junction, Light'
>>    which I retrieve from Font Viewer under Linux.  MWE follows at the
>>    end of this email.  I reference Wolfgang's response stating that the
>>    expanded name must be used
>>    (http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2014/077321.html).
>
> You need the familyname of the font, you use the font manager of your OS
> to get the name.
>
> \definefontfamily [junction] [rm] [Junction]
> \definefontfamily [junction] [mm] [Latin Modern Math]
>
> \definefontfamily [junction-light] [rm] [Junction]
> [tf=style:light,bf=style:regular]

I just had it made working this way:

\definefontfamily[mainface]
	[ss]
	[EgalobhierFarinUrlaubodersonstwasoderwersteht]		
	[tf=Junction Light, bf=Junction Regular]

It seems that as soon as you define your own weights (which you can mix 
from different font families) in the fourth pair of brackets, there can 
be anything in the third pair of brackets (family name).

\definefontfamily[mainface]
	[sans]
	[Anything]		
	[regularfont=Junction Light, boldfont=Junction Regular]

works as well and is more self-explaining.

An advantage of your way

 > \definefontfamily [junction-light] [rm] [Junction]
 > [tf=style:light,bf=style:regular]

is that you have to type the family name only once if you re-define 
weights from the same family.

Are there any reasons why one should not use any of all those synonyms?


Greetings Jörg

> \definefontfamily [junction-light] [mm] [Latin Modern Math]
>
> \setupbodyfont[junction]
>
> \starttext
>
> \input ward \bf \input ward
>
> \blank \switchtobodyfont[junction-light]
>
> \tf \input ward \bf \input ward
>
> \stoptext
>
>
>> 2.  How does one switch fonts in-line for small snippets of text?  I
>>    used to use '{\simplefont[heydingsicons] q}123.345.67890', but this
>>    now results in an error.
>>
>>    tex error       > error on line 7 in file
>> virtual://buffer.noname.1: ! Undefined control sequence
>>
>>    l.7                 {\simplefont [heydingsicons] q}~123.456.7890
>> {\simplefont[heydingsicons..
>
> When you use a symbol font define a command for it with \definesymbol
> and access it with \symbol.
>
> The example below uses the Font Awesome [1] font for the symbols (the
> symbols are defined in the attached file).
>
> \usesymbols[fontawesome]
>
> \defineframed
>    [SymbolFrame]
>    [strut=no,
>     width=1em,
>     height=1em,
>     background=color,
>     backgroundcolor=black,
>     corner=round,
>     radius=.5ex,
>     foregroundcolor=white]
>
> \definesymbol
>    [mysymbol]
>    [\SymbolFrame{\directsymbol{fontawesome}{question}}]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startlines
> \symbol[fontawesome][question]
> \symbol[fontawesome][question-circle]
> \framed[strut=no,width=1em,height=1em,background=color,backgroundcolor=black,corner=round,radius=.5ex,foregroundcolor=white]{\symbol[fontawesome][question]}
> \symbol[mysymbol]
> \stoplines
>
> \stoptext
>
>
>> 3.  This may be a more generic typescript mapping issue, but I still
>>    struggle with understanding font mappings.  I don't quite get how
>>    the default mappings are done.
>>
>>    Look, for example, at Junction above.  'junction' is mapped to
>>    'junctionbold' rather than 'junctionregular'.  Is this just done by
>>    taking the first in the list in alphabetic order?
>>
>>    Or how the League Gothic font is processed below.  How is it that
>>    leaguegothic is mapped to leaguegothiccondenseditalic by default?
>>    What is the recommended way in this new simplefont scheme to set the
>>    mappings for a document?
>>
>>    $ mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=leaguegothic
>>
>>    resolvers       | trees | analyzing 'home:texmf'
>>    resolvers       | caching | skipping 'files' for 'home:texmf' from
>>    '/opt/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/trees/54be04d87dd160089f572b19cb5c97e9'
>> (version mismatch)
>>    leaguegothic                   leaguegothiccondenseditalic
>>    /home/pavneet/.fonts/opentype/TheLeagueOfMoveableType/theleagueof-league-gothic-64c3ede/LeagueGothic-CondensedItalic.otf
>>    leaguegothiccondenseditalic    leaguegothiccondenseditalic
>>    /home/pavneet/.fonts/opentype/TheLeagueOfMoveableType/theleagueof-league-gothic-64c3ede/LeagueGothic-CondensedItalic.otf
>>    leaguegothiccondensedregular   leaguegothiccondensedregular
>>   /home/pavneet/.fonts/opentype/TheLeagueOfMoveableType/theleagueof-league-gothic-64c3ede/LeagueGothic-CondensedRegular.otf
>>    leaguegothicitalic             leaguegothicitalic
>>             /home/pavneet/.fonts/opentype/TheLeagueOfMoveableType/theleagueof-league-gothic-64c3ede/LeagueGothic-Italic.otf
>>    leaguegothicregular            leaguegothicregular
>>            /home/pavneet/.fonts/opentype/TheLeagueOfMoveableType/theleagueof-league-gothic-64c3ede/LeagueGothic-Regular.otf
>
> There mappings are only relevant when you create your own typescripts
> where you access fonts
> with the name method, e.g. \definefontsynonym [Serif]
> [name:leaguegothic] but simplefonts doesn’t
> use of them.
>
> [1] http://fontawesome.io
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
>
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