Re: Typefaces ... how does this work?

From: S Barmeier <severinbarmeier@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Typefaces ... how does this work?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:55:43 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEcLuy3GAhwQa6tO3BkLMfv2F+sAqoXj2BLzVStNSgD2BMKb1g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51BA045F.6020205@student.ru.nl>

If you are not using all predefined font styles, you could set your
monospace, sans, serif, or whichever style you aren't using to the
font you want to use and use the predefined command (e.g. \sf) to
access that font.

Severin

On 6/13/13, Sander Maijers <S.N.Maijers@student.ru.nl> wrote:
>
> On 12-06-13 23:33, luigi scarso wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Sander Maijers
>> <S.N.Maijers@student.ru.nl <mailto:S.N.Maijers@student.ru.nl>> wrote:
>>
>>     I want to adjust my document to have Lucida as main typeface, but
>>     with brief passages (a few words at most) in a typeface that has the
>>     IPA glyphs like Gentium.
>>
>>     I've skimmed the manual and the ConTeXt garden Wiki but I do not yet
>>     understand which commands I should use where and with which options
>>     to achieve this -- preferably in a concise way.
>>
>>     Could someone please explain and point out what most current
>>     documentation I should read and in which order to fully understand
>>     how to work with typography in ConTexT? (Obviously I am not a
>>     typographer or typesetter, I just write documents.)
>>
>>     I am in a hurry now to complete my document so I would appreciate
>>     concrete hints to help with my current need. Still, I am interested
>>     to learn a lot about this functionality in the long term.
>>
>> Do you know the simplefonts module ?
>
> I had read about it some time ago, but I had not yet noticed this Wiki
> page :
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTeX#How_LuaTeX_handles_system_fonts
>
> How can I select a different typeface (that can be found by simplefonts)
> for a specific region of text, like a few words?
>
>> --
>> luigi
>>
>>
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