Abstracting styles

Abstracting styles

[Juraj Fiala]

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Hi,

I’m trying to learn ConTeXt, but I’m discovering a few hurdles along the way. Essentially what I currently want to do is to emulate paragraph styles found in other software, e.g. Scribus. After several hours of research all I have in my head is a complete mess of conflicting approaches, so I’d like to get some sane present-day advice. :-)

Say I wanted to achieve this (as a rough example, the point is mixing weights and OpenType features in different contexts):

Heading 1: Source Serif Semibold, smcp=yes, 12% letter-spacing
Heading 2: Source Serif Semibold
Emphasis: Source Serif Regular, smcp=yes, 8% letter-spacing

What is the most straightforward way should I load the fonts and set the ‘styles’?

Thanks!

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Re: Abstracting styles

[Hans Hagen]

On 11/26/2019 8:00 PM, Juraj Fiala wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m trying to learn ConTeXt, but I’m discovering a few hurdles along the 
> way. Essentially what I currently want to do is to emulate paragraph 
> styles found in other software, e.g. Scribus. After several hours of 
> research all I have in my head is a complete mess of conflicting 
> approaches, so I’d like to get some sane present-day advice. :-)
> 
> Say I wanted to achieve this (as a rough example, the point is mixing 
> weights and OpenType features in different contexts):
> 
> Heading 1: Source Serif Semibold, smcp=yes, 12% letter-spacing
> Heading 2: Source Serif Semibold
> Emphasis: Source Serif Regular, smcp=yes, 8% letter-spacing
> 
> What is the most straightforward way should I load the fonts and set the 
> ‘styles’?
Something:

\definefontfamily[mainface][serif][Source Serif Pro]

\setupbodyfont[mainface]

\definecharacterkerning [LittleMoreA] [factor=0.12]
\definecharacterkerning [LittleMoreB] [factor=0.08]

\setuphead
   [chapter]
   [distance=2em,
    style=\tfd,
    textstyle={\smallcaps\setcharacterkerning[LittleMoreA]}]

\definehighlight
   [emphasis]
   [style={\setcharacterkerning[LittleMoreA]}]

\starttext

\startchapter[title=Something Small]

     test \emphasis {test} test

\stopchapter

but the font has no smallcaps

Hans


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Re: Abstracting styles

[Juraj Fiala]

Hi, thanks for the reply!

On Wednesday 27. November 2019 10:08, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> \setuphead
> [chapter]
> [distance=2em,
> style=\tfd,
> textstyle={\smallcaps\setcharacterkerning[LittleMoreA]}]

This doesn’t use Semibold however. Do I understand correctly that I need to make a Typescript for that to work?

> but the font has no smallcaps

Sure it does, and very nice ones too. ^_^

Anyway, I _think_ I’m slowly finding my way around.

Cheers.

Juraj

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Re: Abstracting styles

[Pablo Rodriguez]

On 11/27/19 2:52 PM, Juraj Fiala wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the reply!
>
> On Wednesday 27. November 2019 10:08, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> \setuphead
>> [chapter]
>> [distance=2em,
>> style=\tfd,
>> textstyle={\smallcaps\setcharacterkerning[LittleMoreA]}]
>
> This doesn’t use Semibold however. Do I understand correctly that I
> need to make a Typescript for that to work?

Hi Juraj,

you don’t need to make a typescript.

Just add "[bf=style:semibold]" to the "\definefontfamily" command and
invoke it with "style=\bfd".

Of course, the first option replaces bold wit the semibold font.

Just in case it helps,

Pablo
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