Thank you. But I still Don’t unterstand. I believe, I can write so:

     \definefontfamily [myfamily] [serif] [Palatino]
     \setupbodyfont[myfamily, 10pt]

But then I have no italics, bold or small caps. When I write only:

     \setupbodyfont[palatino, 10pt]

all is well. What’ wromg here?

On 23 May 2014, at 19:23, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> Am 23.05.2014 um 19:14 schrieb Werner Hintze <we.hintze@gmail.com>:
>
>> I believe, it is possible to use in Conext the otf-fonts I have in my 
>> computer. I generated the database, the quert shows me, that the font 
>> is there, but I can not get it in my file. And when I read the 
>> chapter in the Manual or whatever I can find, I read a lot about 
>> Typescripts and unterstand absolutely nothing. I find how to make a 
>> typescript for palatino, which makes no difference, but I don’t 
>> unterstand why I shall make a typescript and how.
>>
>> Is there a text which tells step by step what I have to so and why? 
>> Now the situation is: I have a lot of Fonts and can use just four. 
>> That was much easier with LaTeX…
>
>
> The context suite provides the \definefontfamily command which let you 
> select a font (the name of the font goes into the third argument) 
> without the need to write a typescript. Below is a example where I 
> used fonts from my ms office installation.
>
> \definefontfamily [myfontcollection] [serif] [Cambria]
> \definefontfamily [myfontcollection] [sans]  [Calibri]
> \definefontfamily [myfontcollection] [mono]  [Consolas]
> \definefontfamily [myfontcollection] [math]  [Cambria Math]
>
> \setupbodyfont[myfontcollection]
>
> \starttext
>
> {\rm\input ward }
>
> {\ss\input ward }
>
> {\tt\input ward }
>
> \startformula
> c^2 = a^2 + b^2
> \stopformula
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
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