From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32056 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How to use text Calligraphic font using \definefont Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:35:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <200612060946.02619.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165437347 23128 80.91.229.10 (6 Dec 2006 20:35:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 06 21:35:44 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 dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gs3US-00032N-AR for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:35:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565921FFB6; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:32:53 +0100 (CET) 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 24660-02-7; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:32:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B0BF1FFB4; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:32:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2061FFB6 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:32:40 +0100 (CET) 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 24660-02-6 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:32:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.160]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B7321FFB1 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:32:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: FROM aditya.engin.umich.edu (udhcp-wlan77.public.engin.umich.edu [141.213.120.87]) BY skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 45772985.8B803.2502 ; 6 Dec 2006 15:35:18 -0500 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200612060946.02619.john@wexfordpress.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:32056 Archived-At: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 17:27, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> Hi, >> > >> \definefont[BigText] [Calligarphic sa 2] >> >> \BigText test >> >> which gives me the math calligraphic fonts. How do I get the text >> calligraphic fonts, using \definefont? > > The virtue of the Context system of font specification lies in the ability to > change sizes with \tfb, \tfx etc. For a single size used for e.g, title page > I use a regular TeX \font statement. For example after I fought through the > AGaramond problem for body fonts, with great help from this list, I still > retained some additional special statements like: > > \font\MySans uhvbo8r at 30pt > \font\BigSans uhvb8r at 30pt > \font\MedSans uhvb8r at 20pt > etc. > > This is a bit tedious but pretty much mistake proof. And the call for each > variant is simple. Thank you. I guess I will have to learn how plain TeX handles fonts. Until now, ConTeXt saved me from the gory details :) But I am still confused. Why does text calligraphic font not have a font synonym? Aditya