Changing typeface for non-body text, using XeTeX -- how?

Changing typeface for non-body text, using XeTeX -- how?

[James Fisher]

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Hi all,


I'm new to TeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX.
I'm progressing fine except for in one area: even though I'm told I'm using
the best possible software for easy typeface use in TeX, I'm finding this
area (i.e., fonts) confusing and badly documented.
This is all the more surprising as what I want to do seems entirely
bog-standard: set some basic brand identity by using a body typeface and
heading typeface.
There's the \setupbodyfont command for, obviously, the body font -- but I
can't identify any equivalent command like "\setupheadingfont".
I can see other commands for *ad hoc* use of other fonts, but I want to
stick with as much semantic markup as possible and apply style elsewhere.
Presumably this is possible!  Could someone explain to me how to do this?


Best wishes


James Fisher


(p.s. -- I'm coming from HTML+CSS-ish paradigms here, if that would help
someone explain to me how I should reorganise my mind.)

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Re: Changing typeface for non-body text, using XeTeX -- how?

[Hans Hagen]

On 22-2-2010 4:18, James Fisher wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm new to TeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX.
> I'm progressing fine except for in one area: even though I'm told I'm using
> the best possible software for easy typeface use in TeX, I'm finding this
> area (i.e., fonts) confusing and badly documented.
> This is all the more surprising as what I want to do seems entirely
> bog-standard: set some basic brand identity by using a body typeface and
> heading typeface.
> There's the \setupbodyfont command for, obviously, the body font -- but I
> can't identify any equivalent command like "\setupheadingfont".
> I can see other commands for *ad hoc* use of other fonts, but I want to
> stick with as much semantic markup as possible and apply style elsewhere.
> Presumably this is possible!  Could someone explain to me how to do this?

most structure and layout related commands have a style key, so

style=bold
style=\tfb

etc



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Re: Changing typeface for non-body text, using XeTeX -- how?

[Willi Egger]

On Feb 22, 2010, at 4:18 AM, James Fisher wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm new to TeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX.
> I'm progressing fine except for in one area: even though I'm told  
> I'm using the best possible software for easy typeface use in TeX,  
> I'm finding this area (i.e., fonts) confusing and badly documented.
> This is all the more surprising as what I want to do seems entirely  
> bog-standard: set some basic brand identity by using a body  
> typeface and heading typeface.
> There's the \setupbodyfont command for, obviously, the body font --  
> but I can't identify any equivalent command like "\setupheadingfont".
> I can see other commands for ad hoc use of other fonts, but I want  
> to stick with as much semantic markup as possible and apply style  
> elsewhere.
> Presumably this is possible!  Could someone explain to me how to do  
> this?
>
You can define your own styles if needed and use the style=yourstyle  
where this key is available:

\definealternativestyle[HeadStyle] [{\definedfont[Seravek-Regular at  
16pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=18pt]}]

\setuphead[chapter][style=HeadStyle]


Willi

> Best wishes
>
>
> James Fisher
>
>
> (p.s. -- I'm coming from HTML+CSS-ish paradigms here, if that would  
> help someone explain to me how I should reorganise my mind.)
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