Re: \switchtobodyfont issue, also with newotf

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 8/20/2015 8:34 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
> While working to get italic smallcaps in a secondary font face, I came
> across an issue with \switchbodyfont. When this is used in a certain
> way, the \tf font-style is changed, but not the \it, \bf, and so on.
>
> The example below compiles cleanly as presented, and the problem is not
> present. Each test line shows the expected font name and text.
>
> When the Oops! line is uncommented, the only test line for the test font
> that is correct is the \tf line. Other lines use the default font face
> in the specified font styles, but the font features are a mix (note that
> some are onum, some lining, and that long-s t ligatures are inconsistent).
>
> When the newotf module is enabled, the example fails to compile without
> errors, but produces similar results to non-newotf when the errors are
> ignored.
>
> This is not a problem with individual fonts—I have tried a variety of
> fonts both as default and secondary and get the same result.
>
>     %\usemodule[newotf]
>       \setupwhitespace[medium]
>       \define\testAlphabet{\purefontname\font\quad
>          ABCDEFGHIJKLmnopqrsſtuvwxyz \& 012345789}
>       \starttypescript[Secondary]
>     \definetypeface[Secondary][rm][serif][ebgaramond][default]
>     % \definetypeface[Secondary][rm][serif][palatino][default]
>     % \definetypeface[Secondary][rm][serif][libertine][default]
>       \stoptypescript
>       \setupbodyfont [modern, 10pt]
>     %\setupbodyfont [palatino, 10pt]
>       \starttext
>     % {\switchtobodyfont[Secondary]Oops!\par}%          Oops!
>        Default tf: {\tf \testAlphabet}\par
>        Default bf: {\bf \testAlphabet}\par
>        Default it: {\it \testAlphabet}\par
>        Default sl: {\sl \testAlphabet}\par
>        Default bi: {\bi \testAlphabet}\par
>        Default bs: {\bs \testAlphabet}\par
>        Default sc: {\sc \testAlphabet}\par
>        Default xx: {\it\setff{smallcaps}\testAlphabet}\par
>        \switchtobodyfont[Secondary]
>        Secondary tf: {\tf \testAlphabet}\par
>        Secondary bf: {\bf \testAlphabet}\par
>        Secondary it: {\it \testAlphabet}\par
>        Secondary sl: {\sl \testAlphabet}\par
>        Secondary bi: {\bi \testAlphabet}\par
>        Secondary bs: {\bs \testAlphabet}\par
>        Secondary sc: {\sc \testAlphabet}\par
>        Secondary xx: {\it\setff{smallcaps}\testAlphabet}\par
>     \stoptext
>
> Have I failed to properly specify the secondary typeface? Do I need a

mostly changed names of the fonts, a missing directive (i'll add a 
fallback for that) and such ... patched in the next beta

Hans


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