From: Andrea Valle <valle@di.unito.it>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: fonts (in luatex) (again)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:25:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A683402A-05B0-4BE4-A731-3BEE21E7EC94@di.unito.it> (raw)
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Thanks Hans
before trying again with Wolfgang's example, I was curious to know.
Is there something broken regarding font selection in luatex?
I thought so.
Just not to invest all the afternoon with no hopes...:)
Best
-a-
On 30 Jun 2008, at 23:06, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Andrea Valle wrote:
>> Thanks Charles
>>
>> A praise from the heart to the devs.
>> Wouldn't be possibile to support font selection like in XeTeX?
>> This would make thing really a lot easier for sublunar users like me.
>>
>> Really, the whole process it's damn' complicated: no one a part 2
>> or 3
>> seems to know the details :)
>
> depends on where you come from ...
>
> \font\whatever=somename<with xetex spec>
>
> should kind of work in luatex
>
> anyhow, the main idea behind the context font system is that one
> creates
> combinations with symbolic names and then can use those names also
> elsewhere (e.g. using SerifBold when defining a titlepage); if you
> don't
> use math and just one style, definitions are real simple, but in
> practice you define a combination (serif/sans, mono, math)
>
> you can predefine such a set, give it a name, and then reuse it for
> every document you want; there are a few examples of such typescripts
>
> \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi]
>
> \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt]
>
> less commands make no sense
>
> any systems takes time to get accustomed to and tex is somewhat
> complicated by the fact that math definitions are part of the game as
> well as that we might want to conbine fonts.
>
> Hans
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-02 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-28 15:34 Andrea Valle
2008-06-28 17:55 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-06-30 20:42 ` Andrea Valle
2008-06-30 21:06 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-02 13:25 ` Andrea Valle [this message]
2008-07-02 15:41 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-02 17:22 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-02 22:09 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-02 23:40 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-03 7:55 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-03 7:57 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-03 8:48 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-03 9:28 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-03 9:40 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-03 9:22 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-07-03 9:51 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-03 6:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-02 23:30 ` Diego Depaoli
2008-06-30 6:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-30 20:37 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 13:14 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 13:22 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 13:34 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 14:16 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 14:18 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 15:10 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 15:35 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 15:41 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-07-15 16:22 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-07-15 15:59 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 16:27 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 19:19 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-07-15 20:53 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-07-15 21:58 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-07-15 21:30 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-16 0:42 ` Diego Depaoli
2008-07-16 7:15 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-16 11:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-17 8:05 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 20:36 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-15 20:54 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-15 21:04 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 14:39 ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-15 14:50 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-07-15 15:53 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-07-15 15:57 ` Andrea Valle
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