Font switching question

Font switching question

[Yue Wang]

Hi, Hans:

I am working on Chinese support on XeTeX/ConTeXt and I almost finished
that. I will later upload a module called t-zhspacing to the garden
(or CTAN?). But there is one last problem. Let me explain like this.

Suppost I have two typescripts (typeA and typeB) and both with
complete typeface defined (rm/ss/tt, bf/it/bfit/smcp....)

Now I want to do something like this:

\usetypescript[typeA]
\usetypescript[typeB]
\setupbodyfont[typeA]
This should be typeA/rm/normal \it and this should be typeA/rm/it \ss
and this should be typeA/ss/it %here everything is ok in context
\typeB this should be typeB/ss/it %(but context gives me
typeB/rm/normal. How can I automatically get what I want?)

Yue Wang
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Re: Font switching question

[Yue Wang]

Hi Hans:

let me give a better explanation.

we define a typescript foobar. so we can call  \foobar to load the
foobar typeface.
then we should define a macro like this:
\def\switchtofoobar{\savecurrentstyle\foobar\getcurrentstyle}
and call it like that:

text 1 {\swichtofoobar text2} text 3
when \savecurrentstyle is called, it define a macro named
\getcurrentstyle in order to save the style of text 1 (like \ss\it,
10pt) into that. that's all we want.

So it's not complicated to do so as font fallback.
(we already done that in latex, but don't know how to do that in
ConTeXt due to lack of knowledge of font mechanism)

Yue Wang

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Hans:
>
> I am working on Chinese support on XeTeX/ConTeXt and I almost finished
> that. I will later upload a module called t-zhspacing to the garden
> (or CTAN?). But there is one last problem. Let me explain like this.
>
> Suppost I have two typescripts (typeA and typeB) and both with
> complete typeface defined (rm/ss/tt, bf/it/bfit/smcp....)
>
> Now I want to do something like this:
>
> \usetypescript[typeA]
> \usetypescript[typeB]
> \setupbodyfont[typeA]
> This should be typeA/rm/normal \it and this should be typeA/rm/it \ss
> and this should be typeA/ss/it %here everything is ok in context
> \typeB this should be typeB/ss/it %(but context gives me
> typeB/rm/normal. How can I automatically get what I want?)
>
> Yue Wang
>
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Re: Font switching question

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 11.05.2009 um 16:38 schrieb Yue Wang:

> Hi Hans:
>
> let me give a better explanation.
>
> we define a typescript foobar. so we can call  \foobar to load the
> foobar typeface.
> then we should define a macro like this:
> \def\switchtofoobar{\savecurrentstyle\foobar\getcurrentstyle}
> and call it like that:
>
> text 1 {\swichtofoobar text2} text 3
> when \savecurrentstyle is called, it define a macro named
> \getcurrentstyle in order to save the style of text 1 (like \ss\it,
> 10pt) into that. that's all we want.

 From font-ini.mkii (\push/\popcurrentfont):

% \definetypeface[one][rm][serif][computer-roman][default]
% \definetypeface[two][rm][serif][computer-roman][default][rscale=.9]
%
% {\one \bf test \two test}
% {\one \bf test \pushcurrentfont \two \popcurrentfont test}

there are more helper macros like \savefont and \restorefont

Wolfgang

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Re: Font switching question

[Yue Wang]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 11.05.2009 um 16:38 schrieb Yue Wang:
>
>> Hi Hans:
>>
>> let me give a better explanation.
>>
>> we define a typescript foobar. so we can call  \foobar to load the
>> foobar typeface.
>> then we should define a macro like this:
>> \def\switchtofoobar{\savecurrentstyle\foobar\getcurrentstyle}
>> and call it like that:
>>
>> text 1 {\swichtofoobar text2} text 3
>> when \savecurrentstyle is called, it define a macro named
>> \getcurrentstyle in order to save the style of text 1 (like \ss\it,
>> 10pt) into that. that's all we want.
>
> From font-ini.mkii (\push/\popcurrentfont):
>
> % \definetypeface[one][rm][serif][computer-roman][default]
> % \definetypeface[two][rm][serif][computer-roman][default][rscale=.9]
> %
> % {\one \bf test \two test}
> % {\one \bf test \pushcurrentfont \two \popcurrentfont test}
>
> there are more helper macros like \savefont and \restorefont


Thank you very much, Wolfgang!


>
> Wolfgang
>
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