Re: Non-standard font alternatives

[Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

Matthew McCabe via ntg-context schrieb am 13.12.2022 um 09:15:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm looking to import a font with medium and light weights (in this case 
> Roboto) and define font alternatives so one can quickly switch to light 
> text just as one would switch to bold text. There is a stackexchange 
> answer from Wolfgang 
> (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/303648/context-font-weights) 
> which details a solution to this problem for ConTeXt MkIV but despite my 
> best efforts I haven't been able to get things to work for me. There is 
> the Roboto typescript example on ConTeXt garden but it isn't exactly 
> what I'm looking for as for the document I'm making I would prefer to be 
> able to treat the font weights as alternatives rather than separate 
> families since I will be switching often.
> 
> One can download the exact set of fonts I am using from 
> https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto
> 
> Here is my code:
> 
> [...]
> 
> \starttypescript [sans] [roboto]
>    \definebodyfont [default] [rm]

Replace [rm] with [ss]:

\definebodyfont [default] [ss]

>       [lf=SansLight sa 1,
>        li=SansLightItalic sa 1,
>        tf=Sans sa 1,
>        it=SansItalic sa 1,
>        md=SansMedium sa 1,
>        mi=SansMediumItalic sa 1,
>        bf=SansBold sa 1,
>        bi=SansBoldItalic sa 1,
>        sc=SansCaps sa 1]
> \stoptypescript
> 
> \definetypeface[roboto][rm][sans][roboto][default]

Replace [rm] with [ss]:

\definetypeface [roboto] [ss] [sans] [roboto] [default]

Wolfgang
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