Re: Basic font question (Optima, but no bold, no italics). Standalone ConTeXt does not work. TeX Live 2019 works

[Benjamin Buchmuller <benjamin.buchmuller@gmail.com>]

Although this specific issue might have been solved meanwhile by the helpful suggestions of Wolfang, Thomas and others, I would like to point out that I have recently also encountered an odd behaviour of the mtxrun fontloader in the standalone, in which not all typefaces are available/properly identified.

(I’m sorry to hijack this thread if this is unrelated.)

Basically, when I load “Helvetica Neue”, I get instead of “regular/normal” always “light/italic”.

I have switched to heros for the meantime, but potentially there is some bug behind this. (My documents with the version from Dec/Jan worked fine.)

I recite my example from Wed:

ConTeXt  ver: 2020.01.30 14:13 MKIV beta  fmt: 2020.4.22 (LuaTeX 1.11.1)

and I’m running now into troubles with system font indexing:

mtxrun --script fonts --reload

locates fonts in macOS directories appropriately (*.afm fonts placed in .../tex/texmf-fonts are not found, but at the moment I don’t care too much), however it resolves only to a single font variant for *.ttc instead of all variants:

mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=helvetica

helvetica                         helvetica                    helveticalightoblique         /System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.ttc                    6
helveticalightoblique             helvetica                    helveticalightoblique         /System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.ttc                    6
helveticaneuedeskinterfaceheavy   helveticaneuedeskinterface   helveticaneuedeskinterfaceheavy   /System/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeueDeskInterface.ttc   10
helveticaneuethinitalic           helveticaneue                helveticaneuethinitalic       /System/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeue.ttc                14

As a consequence, when I run

\definefontfamily[mainface][ss][Helvetica Neue]
\setupbodyfont[mainface, 12pt, sans]

I get the light oblique variant instead of the regular one. I have tried to fix this via a 

\definefontfamily[mainface][ss][Helvetica Neue][tf=style:normal]

but apparently I understand too little about this setup altogether …

Thanks already for any suggestions!



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>   1. Re: Basic font question (Optima, but no bold, no italics).
>      Standalone ConTeXt does not work. TeX Live 2019 works
>      (Wolfgang Schuster)
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> From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Basic font question (Optima, but no bold, no italics). Standalone ConTeXt does not work. TeX Live 2019 works
> Date: 24 April 2020 at 08:53:52 CEST
> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
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> Gerben Wierda schrieb am 24.04.2020 um 08:48:
>> With Arial:
>> 
>> \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][Arial]
>> \setupbodyfont[mainface,10pt]
>> 
>> <image.png>
>> 
>> with Optima:
>> 
>> \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][Optima]
>> \setupbodyfont[mainface,10pt]
>> 
>> <image.png>
>> It doesn’t matter if the font statements are before or after \starttext
>> 
>> Then I thought, let’s test some other things. I logged in as another user, and used ConTeXt from TeX Live 2019:
>> 
>> <image.png>
>> It seems to be that on my system, the standalone installed ConTeXt does not work with Optima, but the TeX Live installed one does.
> 
> Can you try this:
> 
> \definefontfamily [mainface] [rm] [Optima]
>   [it=optimaitalic,
>    bf=optimabold,
>    bi=optimabolditalic]
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
> 
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