From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32130 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: strange behaviour of \definedfont['Some Name'] in XeTeX Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:56:19 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00612130356y55311985x683c593c0307cad4@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00612120839q769d7887rdf4993a9c150ba89@mail.gmail.com> <457EE4B3.5040806@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166011008 5321 80.91.229.10 (13 Dec 2006 11:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adam Lindsay Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 13 12:56:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GuSj1-0008F9-V8 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:56:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5941FFAE; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:56:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29821-04-4; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:56:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DBBB1FFF5; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:56:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C10D2000D for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:56:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29821-04-3 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:56:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 1337D1FFAE for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:56:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l37so445565nfc for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:56:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.202.14 with SMTP id z14mr2803296nff.1166010979278; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:56:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.209.2 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:56:19 -0800 (PST) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <457EE4B3.5040806@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:32130 Archived-At: On 12/12/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm probaby misusing the feature (most robably because I just didn't > > take time to study how to do it properly), but it behaves really > > strange. > > > > In XeTeX I first did > > > > \font\f='Some Name' \f > > > > which worked OK. But when I tried the same with > > \definedfont['Some Name'] > > it resulted in strange behaviour. For some fonts, metapost has been > > invoked and complained, but the resulting document had the proper font > > plus "scaled 1000" written on the first page where the font has been > > selected. For other fonts it failed completely. > > > > What's actually the most clean way of including an "uc-encoded" font > > at a specific font size, but without the need of bold or any other > > "typefaces" (just for a title for example)? (Which basically means: I > > only want the same behaviour as the plain TeX expression above + uc > > encoding.) > > > hm, that's Adam Lindsay's teritory; does "bla" work? (double quotes) No, I tried that as well. As far as I remember this code used to work already, but I might be wrong. Mojca