Re: Gentium Basic/Book

[Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>]

Hi Mojca,

I tried your example below and struggled in path error:

%\starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic]
%\definefontsynonym[GentiumBasic]          [file:GenBasR]  
[features=default]
%\definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicItalic]    [file:GenBasI]  
[features=default]
%\definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicBold]      [file:GenBasB]  
[features=default]
%\definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicBoldItalic][file:GenBasBI] 
[features=default]
%\stoptypescript

%\starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic][name]
%\definefontsynonym[Serif]          [GentiumBasic]
%\definefontsynonym[SerifItalic]    [GentiumBasicItalic]
%\definefontsynonym[SerifBold]      [GentiumBasicBold]
%\definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][GentiumBasicBoldItalic]
%\stoptypescript

%\definetypeface[mygentium][rm][serif][gentium-basic][default]

%\setupbodyfont[mygentium,36pt]


\font\rom="Gentium Basic" at 36pt

\starttext

Test WQG 0196

\rom Test WQG 0196

\stoptext


Doing it like this works OK.
But uncommenting the lines above ends up in ...

kpathsea: Running mktexmf GenBasR

! I can't find file `GenBasR'.


But isn't it the same font/file adressed in both cases?

(sorry, I am an absolute beginner in xetex)

Yours,

Steffen












Am 20.11.2007 um 01:57 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

> On 11/19/07, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
>> Guess I asked for too much at once.
>>
>> I've downloaded the Gentium Basic/Basic Book set of fonts from
>> <http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium_basic>, and I'd like to use them with
>> ConTeXt.  I ran texfont (with the command line texfont
>> --fontroot=c:\users\chesky\programs\context\tex\texmf-local
>> --sourcepath=... --vendor=sil --collection=gentium --makepath
>> --install), and now running texexec on the newly generated
>> texnansi-sil-gentium.tex produces some sort of glyph list.
>
> Rather than using texfont (half-broken anyway), use XeTeX or LuaTeX.
>
> (If you're using MikTeX and are willing to upgrade to MikTeX 2.7, you
> can process your documents with "texexec --xtx filename"; if you're
> using the standalone ConTeXt, you can process it with "--xtx" or
> "--lua".)
>
> Depending on whether you want to install those fonts or keep them in
> the tree there are slightly different approaches, but this should work
> for both LuTeX and XeTeX if you keep your files in the working
> directory or in texmf/fonts/opentype/...[somewhere here]...
>
> \starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic]
> \definefontsynonym[GentiumBasic]          [file:GenBasR]  
> [features=default]
> \definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicItalic]    [file:GenBasI]  
> [features=default]
> \definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicBold]      [file:GenBasB]  
> [features=default]
> \definefontsynonym[GentiumBasicBoldItalic][file:GenBasBI] 
> [features=default]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic][name]
> \definefontsynonym[Serif]          [GentiumBasic]
> \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic]    [GentiumBasicItalic]
> \definefontsynonym[SerifBold]      [GentiumBasicBold]
> \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][GentiumBasicBoldItalic]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \definetypeface[mygentium][rm][serif][gentium-basic][default]
>
> \setupbodyfont[mygentium,13pt]
>
>
> I don't know how you plan to mix those fonts, but "reverting to
> another typeface in case a glyph is missing" is a bad idea in this
> particular case, at least in my opinion (although it's conditionally
> doable) - how are you going to handle missing characters in bold
> typeface?
>
> One possibility would be to use:
> - Gentium for Roman & Italic
> - Gentium Basic for Bold & Bold Italic (and hope that you won't need
> any special characters for titles)
>
> Mojca
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