From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39420 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: XeTeX: faked bold & slanted + request for ppc users Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:28:48 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00803090828v6fb74397xd52f5de52f9da3c4@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205076600 12527 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2008 15:30:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 15:30:00 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Mar 09 16:30:27 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JYNTm-0005f7-JJ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:30:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CD61FB8E; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:29:52 +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 08618-01; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:29:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1841FB8F; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:29:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7211FB8F for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:29:19 +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 07653-01-6 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:28:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.169]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C39E1FB5A for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:28:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 23so1671875wfg.5 for ; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.88.20 with SMTP id l20mr1401149wfb.72.1205076528308; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.143.173.8 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 08:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:39420 Archived-At: Hello, I just wanted to let you know that XeTeX now supports both faking bold and slanted (and the binaries on the garden minimals have that feature already). It's generally a bad idea to use it, but in case that you need it only for small portions of text (if you really have no other way out), it could be handy. (Slanted is less evil to use than "bold".) The plain syntax is: \font\a="Gentium" \font\b="Gentium:slant=0.2" % better: \font\b="Gentium/I" \font\c="Gentium:embolden=2" \font\d="Gentium:embolden=2;slant=0.2" Some time ago I have posted an example of the (current?) ConTeXt way to use it: \definefontfeature [slantedandextended] % cloned from the rest of XeTeX, not really needed [method=node,script=latn,language=dflt,liga=yes,onum=yes,kern=yes, slant=0.25,extend=1.5] \definefontsynonym [myfont] [file:texgyrepagella-regular][features=slantedandextended] \starttext \definedfont[myfont] This is slanted and extended \stoptext Also, I would be greatful if any mac ppc user could provide feedback whether the cross-compiled xetex binaries on http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/xetex/osx-ppc/bin/ work ok. Thanks, Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________