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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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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