From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Define font based on language
Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 19:05:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <572F71E7.8000609@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57026958.8070405@dlubal.cz>
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> Michal Ondrejáš <mailto:michal.ondrejas@dlubal.cz>
> 4. April 2016 um 15:17
> Hello
>
> I need some help regarding font definitions.
>
> The situation is like this:
>
> \definefont
> [issuefont]
> [SansRegular at 14pt]
> ....
> {\issuefont \labeltext{issue} \crlf \documentvariable{issue}}
>
> I need to get chinese text into the issue variable, but for that I
> need to change the font. I need something like this:
>
> \def\chooseissufont{%
> \translate
> [zh={Sim Sun},
> en={SansRegular}]}
>
> \definefont
> [issuefont]
> [\chooseissuefont at 14pt]
>
> Using "zh" is ok, I managed to somehow make ConTeXt accept the "zh"
> language code. It's not perfect but it's for another topic. I get the
> text in this way, but the sizing doesn't work. The text is too small
> in all languages.
You can use ConTeXt’s fallback mechanism to pull missing glyphs from
other fonts.
\definefallbackfamily [mainface] [rm] [MS Mincho]
[range=cjkunifiedideographs]
\definefontfamily [mainface] [rm] [Latin Modern Roman]
\setupbodyfont[mainface]
\starttext
People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国)
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-04 13:17 Michal Ondrejáš
2016-05-05 9:03 ` luigi scarso
2016-05-08 17:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
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