From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: setting size for mainfont or sansfont in stable simplefonts
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 23:35:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A676090A-1942-49D8-AE73-86C3B81EBC3D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527AC258.9030802@sil.org>
Am 06.11.2013 um 23:27 schrieb Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@sil.org>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using the simplefonts module from TeX Live 2013. (I can't use the
> new simplefonts for this production project, due to stability requirements.)
>
> I have the following, which works well for the most part:
>
> \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic]
>
> \usemodule[simplefonts][size=9.2pt]
>
> \setmainfont[Gentium Book Basic]
> \setsansfont[Tex Gyre Heros]
>
>
> \starttext
>
> Serif typeface: regular, {\em italic}, {\bf bold} and {\bf\em bold
> italic} styles.
>
>
> \ss Sans--serif typeface: regular, {\em italic}, {\bf bold} and {\bf\em
> bold italic} styles.
>
> \stoptext
>
>
>
> Because the Tex Gyre Heros font is larger than Gentium Book Basic at a
> given point size, when I compile this document, there is a size mismatch
> between the serif and the sans typefaces. So I looked for a way to give
> the sans font a smaller default size. I couldn't find an example of such
> at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/simplefonts. I tried this:
>
> \setsansfont[Tex Gyre Heros][size=8pt]
>
> but it didn't seem to have any effect.
\setsansfont[…][scale=0.95]
Wolfgang
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