From: BPJ <bpj@melroch.se>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: typescripts and variants
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:53:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADAJKhB0zYaKkYLP4wF=A=byDBWeOqiLN+VdR0c0WFPmyo8GJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb672422-352d-5b1d-c473-4c041e15157d@gmail.com>
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> > And, what about adding more styles so that you could have Light, Medium,
> SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Black etc. all defined in a single fontfamily?
> If that was available each font family would then define all the styles for
> one variant (SemiCondensed, ExtraCondensed, Condensed, each with 18 styles!)
>
> You can add more alternatives (\it, \bf ...) to the font mechanism but
> this requires additional settings (\definebodyfont ...) to get it
> working. A limiting factor is that you have to stick to two-letter names
> for each alternative
If you don't mind a question from a lapsed user: what is the reason for
this restriction? It seems arbitrary but I have a feeling it's some
vanilla-TeX thing which I have forgotten.
and the easier solution is to create additional
> typefaces.
>
Also most likely sanity preserving!
> Wolfgang
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-24 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-22 22:17 denis.maier
2021-06-23 6:43 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-06-23 6:53 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-06-23 9:05 ` denis.maier
2021-06-23 16:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2021-06-24 14:53 ` BPJ [this message]
2021-06-23 19:42 ` Bruce Horrocks
2021-06-23 20:32 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-06-23 21:01 ` Hans Hagen
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