From: Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \typescriptthree within the optional argument of \definefontsynonym
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:00:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMHZ1daab9QUaQafUk9N7CujCv=eoLOC0T_R2EXiSkf0nBYqcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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awesome! that's perfect, Wolfgang!
—MHB
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni@gmail.com>
> 4. August 2016 um 15:24
> Hello Hans,
>
> Suppose you have a typescript as follows.
>
> \starttypescript [first] [MyFont] [GoodieOne,GoodieTwo]
> \definefontsynonym [Serif] [\typescripttwo] [goodies=\typescriptthree]
> \stoptypescript
>
> Using macros \typescriptX (for X=one, two, and three) works in the first
> and second arguments in \definefontsynonym but not in the optional
> argument. This seems to be because the optional argument is not expanded.
> Is this a bug or a feature?
>
> What I want to do was have a set of "fixes" (correcting kern issues, etc.)
> for a collection of fonts. I can either put these in separate goodie files
> or feature sets (the latter being what I was trying but not in the sample
> above), and write generic typescripts that would load any of the fonts with
> its associated fixes.
>
> While I can use sans/serif/mono in the first argument, and name of the
> font in the second argument (to be mapped appropriately using
> \typescriptprefix to nmemonic name and real font name), the third
> (optional) argument of \definefontsynonym does not expand immediately,
> hence I'll end up with "undefined" \typescriptthree when it will be used.
>
> You can try to expand the value of \typescripthree with
>
> \starttypescript[...][...][...]
> \expanded{\definefontsynonym[...][...][goodies=\typescriptthree]}
> \expanded{\definefontsynonym[...][...][goodies=\typescriptthree]}
> \stoptypescript
>
> or
>
> \starttypescript[...][...][...]
> \startexpanded
> \definefontsynonym[...][...][goodies=\typescriptthree]
> \definefontsynonym[...][...][goodies=\typescriptthree]
> \stopexpanded
> \stoptypescript
>
> Wolfgang
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 13:24 Mohammad Hossein Bateni
2016-08-04 13:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-08-04 14:00 ` Mohammad Hossein Bateni [this message]
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