Re: Newbie, question about fonts

[Thad Heltemes <theltemes@gmail.com>]

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Try this:

\definefontfamily[ijcv-fonts][sans][ITCFranklinGothicStd][tf=file:ITCFranklinGothicStd-BkCp.otf,
it=file:ITCFranklinGothicStd-BkCpIt.otf,
bf=file:ITCFranklinGothicStd-DmCp.otf,
bi=file: ITCFranklinGothicStd-DmCpIt.otf]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Florian Rudt <frudt@mac.com> wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> at first: thanks a lot for TeX and ConTeXt.
>
> I am really new to CoTeXt, TeX and LaTex, sorry. I come from the other
> side, from the DTP-side (the dark side). I have been working for more than
> 20 years in the graphics and prepess business with the mouse (only at the
> beginning some weeks playing with Linotype Series 300 and Linosetting and
> one day Berthold's ProfiPage).
>
> I managed to redo a simple old job with context: the book block of a
> novel, incl. front matter and fonts from my own library. Even the first
> results were amazingly beautiful.
>
> Now I want to redesign an academic journal (the International Journal of
> Conflict and Violence, www.ijcv.org) that I currently set with tango
> (something like Scribus or InDesign). I have got most of my font working
> with ConTeXt, but this time I failed. I can not get the ITC Franklin Gothic
> working.
>
> My installation is ConTeXt standalone on linux mint. I installed the
> otf-fonts by copying them into the directory
> ~/context/tex/texmf-fonts/opentype/FranklinGothic/ . Then I run "mtxrun
> --generate" in the terminal.
>
> "mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=*franklin*" gives:
>
> itcfranklingothicstd             itcfranklingothicstddmcp
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-DmCp.otf
> itcfranklingothicstdbkcp         itcfranklingothicstdbkcp
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-BkCp.otf
> itcfranklingothicstdbkcpit       itcfranklingothicstdbkcpit
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-BkCpIt.otf
> itcfranklingothicstdbold         itcfranklingothicstddmcp
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-DmCp.otf
> itcfranklingothicstdbolditalic   itcfranklingothicstddmcpit
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-DmCpIt.otf
> itcfranklingothicstddemi         itcfranklingothicstddmcp
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-DmCp.otf
> itcfranklingothicstddmcp         itcfranklingothicstddmcp
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-DmCp.otf
> itcfranklingothicstddmcpit       itcfranklingothicstddmcpit
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-DmCpIt.otf
> itcfranklingothicstditalic       itcfranklingothicstdbkcpit
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-BkCpIt.otf
> itcfranklingothicstdnormal       itcfranklingothicstdbkcpit
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-BkCpIt.otf
> itcfranklingothicstdregular      itcfranklingothicstdbkcp
>  ITCFranklinGothicStd-BkCp.otf
>
> I thought that all font styles are available (but I only need Book
> Compressed, Book Compressed Italic, Demi Compressed, and Demi Compressed
> Italic).
>
> So, this is my not working example:
>
> %fonts for ijcv
> \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic]
> %
> \definefontfamily [ijcv-fonts] [serif] [Minion Pro]
> \definefontfamily [ijcv-fonts] [sans] [itcfranklingothicstd]
> %
> \definefontfeature [default] [default] [onum=yes]
> %
> \setupbodyfont[ijcv-fonts, 10.25pt]
> \setupinterlinespace[4.75mm]
> %
> \starttext
> Minion Pro 1234567890
>
> \ss{ITC Franklin Gothic Book Compressed}
> \stoptext
>
> The problem is the fontname: [itcfranklingothicstd] doesn't work and I
> tried [ITC Franklin Gothic Std] and a lot of other spellings. I succeded
> with a lot of other fonts with this approach.
>
> What could I have done wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Florian
>
>
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