Re: Change the font to Charter

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 10.01.2009 um 13:33 schrieb Curious:

>> I suspect that one might need to fix or improve typescripts. Do you
>> have some visual examples to show the differences? It would be
>> interesting to compare the differences between bchr8t and mdbchr8t  
>> and
>> change typescripts if needed.
>>
>> Moreover, math support would have to be added to typescripts - it
>> could be based on mathdesign.
>>
>> Mojca
>
> Thanks Mojca. Appreciate your response, though as you said I do not  
> really
> understand what I have to do, or if I could do anything. But a few  
> things,
>
> (1) Regarding the visual examples, I could post the PDF file  
> generated with
> Latex and Context. Is there a way to do that on this list? I noticed  
> another
> difference, which is that the line spacing is slightly more in the  
> Context
> document (compared to that compiled with Latex). In latex I chose
> \singlespacing. In Context, I did not change the default spacing. Is  
> the default
> spacing different than singlespacing?

ConTeXt has just other linedistances than LaTeX, that's all.

You can switch to a smaller distance with \setupinterlinespace[small]
or with \setupinterlinespace[line=14pt] (fixed distance) or
\setupinterlinespace[line=2.4ex] (font dependend distance)

> (2) I was going to ask about the math support. You mentioned that it  
> would have
> to be added to the typescript. How difficult is that? Does anyone  
> know the
> commands that can be used for adding such support.

I have a basic typescript for charter because I needed it in a document.

\starttypescript [math] [charter] [name]
   \definefontsynonym [MathRoman]     [Charter-Math-Letters-Regular]
   \definefontsynonym [MathItalic]    [Charter-Math-Letters-Italic]
   \definefontsynonym [MathSymbol]    [Charter-Math-Symbols-Regular]
   \definefontsynonym [MathExtension] [Charter-Math-Extension-Regular]
\stoptypescript

\starttypescript [math] [charter] [default]
   \definefontsynonym [Charter-Math-Letters-Regular]   [mdbchr7m]
   \definefontsynonym [Charter-Math-Letters-Italic]    [mdbchri7m]
   \definefontsynonym [Charter-Math-Symbols-Regular]   [mdbchr7y]
   \definefontsynonym [Charter-Math-Extension-Regular] [mdbchr7v]
   \loadmapfile[mdbch.map]
\stoptypescript

Wolfgang

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