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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Context-minimal installation problem.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:14:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F39CC904-3DB2-459D-83EC-9C5AC875BA83@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908181609.34021.john@wexfordpress.com>


Am 18.08.2009 um 22:09 schrieb John Culleton:

>>> Also I find font handling easier in pdftex. Just a single
>>> statement is needed.
>>
>> Can you a bit more specific what do you mean with this sentence.
>
> Well if I want bitstream charter roman at 11.2pts I can say
> \font\rm bchr8r at 11.2pt
> and I am done.
>
> Or I can define something called \fontsize and make it the referent
> for all my font statements:
> \newdimen\fontsize
> \fontsize=11.2pt
> \baselineskip= 1.1\fontsize
> \font\rm bchr8r at \fontsize
> \font\bo bchbo8t at 1.1\fontsize
> ...and so on.  If I need the book a little longer I just change
> \fontsize. I have even done tricks like this:
> \fontfam=bch
> \font\rm \fontfam r8r at \fontsize
>
> Introducing a new font into TeX is never simple but I find it easier
> if I  don't have to construct (and debug) an elaborate chain of
> font synonyms.

Use XeTeX or LuaTeX and you have no problem to use the font you like.

> It may be the luatex has made life simpler (or at least more
> exciting!)  I will examine that prospect next. But right now I am
> typesetting novels, memoirs and the like.  The fewer variables I
> have to contend with the better.

In MkIV you can write the above as:

\usemodule[simplefonts][size=11.2pt]

\setmainfont[CharterBT]

and when you want to make a global change of the font size you can do  
this with

\setupsimplefonts[size=xxpt]

Wolfgang

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-18 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-18 16:15 John Culleton
2009-08-18 16:55 ` luigi scarso
2009-08-18 16:57   ` Hans van der Meer
2009-08-18 17:44   ` John Culleton
2009-08-18 17:48 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2009-08-18 17:59   ` luigi scarso
2009-08-18 18:04   ` John Culleton
2009-08-18 18:11     ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2009-08-18 19:06       ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-18 19:02     ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-18 19:29       ` John Culleton
2009-08-18 19:30         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-08-18 20:09           ` John Culleton
2009-08-18 20:14             ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]

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