From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30468 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font's in Gerben Wierda's TeX distribution and ConTeXt Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:11:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <3e73596b0608232202h505a78d0yf5c7fb8eb41d061a@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156396282 29019 80.91.229.2 (24 Aug 2006 05:11:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:11:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 24 07:11:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GG7Up-0005qb-Ou for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:11:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA5C1FE9B; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:11:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16867-03; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:11:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31831FEAA; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:11:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D631FEAA for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:11:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15722-08 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:11:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 45EC21FE9B for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:11:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM aditya.annarb01.mi.comcast.net (c-68-40-50-205.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.50.205]) BY hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 44ED34E8.B53EB.30745 ; 24 Aug 2006 01:11:04 -0400 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <3e73596b0608232202h505a78d0yf5c7fb8eb41d061a@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30468 Archived-At: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Pepe Barbe wrote: > I am using GW's TeX distribution with ConTeXt. I am interested in > using a different font other than Computer Modern. This distribution > seems to come with a ton of fonts (More than I need at least). Using > the basic ConTeXt provisions to access the fonts I am able to access > some fonts successfully (Like Palatino or Euler) and some > unsuccsessfully (Like Optima, Iwona or Kurier). > > Ex: > Works: > \definetypeface [MyFace] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default] [encoding=ec] > > Does not work: > \definetypeface [MyFace] [ss] [sans] [iwona] [default] [encoding=ec] Did you do \setupbodyfont[MyFace,ss] (note the ss)? > I realize this might be a very basic question but: What's going on? :-) > > I would appreciate if anyone could at least point me in the direction > of some documentation that would explain why these fonts work/don't > work. Have a look at showfonts.pdf for examples of how to use the common tex fonts with Context. mfonts.pdf is the "font manual" and explains all the bells and whistles of using fonts in context. Aditya