From: John Haltiwanger <john.haltiwanger@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: TTF fonts and MKIV
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:17:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimh2sTm7BH1Wrsp0CSthW2vgpCmvm7PtnjUqpfv@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> Am 29.01.2011 um 06:42 schrieb David Rogers:
>
> > * John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> [2011-01-28 16:39]:
> >
> >> Is there a short, simple guide somewhere that shows how to use TTF and
> >> OTF fonts in Context? I downloaded the new Fonts chapter but it goes
> >> deep into the weeds on typescripts etc. I am looking for a method
> >> that allows me to do in Context what I can already do in most other
> >> DTP programs: simply designate for use a font or font family that
> >> exists in /usr/share/fonts without typescripts, complex and confusing
> >> aliasing schemes or tfm files.
> >
> > The Simplefont module by Wolfgang Schuster is very good for my (not
> > highly demanding) purposes. Certainly it is intended to do just what you
> > describe.
>
> Or you use \definetypeface and specserif, specsans and specmono, e.g.
>
> \definetypeface[mainface][rm][specserif][Times New Roman][default]
> \definetypeface[mainface][ss][specsans] [Arial] [default]
> \definetypeface[mainface][tt][specmono] [Courier] [default]
> \definetypeface[mainface][mm][math] [times] [default]
>
> \setupbodyfont[mainface]
>
> \starttext
> …
> \stoptext
>
I've added this to the wiki page on using Fonts in LuaTeX, but since I don't
know anything about these spec settings it for now just consists of our
example Wolfgang. If you send back some explanations then I will add them to
the wiki as well.
Are these basically the same settings as used in simplefonts?
>
> Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-29 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-28 21:39 John Culleton
2011-01-28 21:52 ` Marco Pessotto
2011-01-29 16:53 ` John Culleton
2011-01-30 15:34 ` Curly quotes was " John Culleton
2011-01-30 15:52 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-01-30 16:29 ` John Culleton
2011-01-30 21:52 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-01-31 20:45 ` John Culleton
2011-01-31 21:35 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-02-01 14:02 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-01-29 5:42 ` David Rogers
2011-01-29 8:55 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-01-29 9:17 ` John Haltiwanger [this message]
2011-01-29 9:46 ` Hans Hagen
2011-01-29 9:51 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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