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

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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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