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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: SimpleFonts: no italic and bold
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:46:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5DF7DFD2-8D96-4CED-892B-A51265D14BD7@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9C2157.6070107@gmx.de>


Am 17.10.2011 um 14:36 schrieb Andreas Schneider:

> On 17.10.2011 14:00, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Important for simplefonts are the entries in the first colums, you can use
>> 
>>   \setmainfont[telegrotesk][regularfont=* nor,boldfont=* fett]
>> 
>> to enable the font.
> 
> Ah, that is what I was looking for. Bold works now! Thank you! :-)
> 
> There's still one problem though: italic doesn't work.

Is there a file for the italic style?

> I guess the font doesn't provide that feature by itself, but can it be emulated/enabled?

ConTeXt can fake the slanted and bold style but they are not the same as a real italic and bold font.

>>> >  The --info output for normal ...
>>> >  mtx-fonts       | family  : telegrotesknor
>>> >
>>> >  ... and bold:
>>> >  mtx-fonts       | family  : telegroteskfet
>>> >
>>> >  What would be the preferred way to setup the font in this scenario?
>> As you can see from this two entries the fonts internal names are a mess,
>> both should be “family: telegrotesk” for a proper names font but this isn’t
>> the case here and the reason why automatic detection fails.
> 
> AFAIK the font was designed by URW who I would expect to do better than that ... but well, it's an old font and maybe it was done in a hurry :D

No, also new fonts can be a mess and there are too many information and names in a font which show sometimes very different values.

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-17 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-17 11:38 Andreas Schneider
2011-10-17 12:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-17 12:36   ` Andreas Schneider
2011-10-17 12:46     ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2011-10-17 13:03       ` Andreas Schneider
2011-10-17 14:49         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-18  6:41           ` Andreas Schneider

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