From: "Patrick Gundlach" <pg@levana.de>
Subject: Re: when trying to setup Arial fonts...
Date: 22 Jun 2004 16:56:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2pt7rljzf.fsf@levana.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40256.80.58.5.46.1087913117.squirrel@bitmail.bitmailer.com> (jimarin@bayesinf.com's message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:05:17 +0200 (CEST)")
Hello Jose,
> I am trying to setup Arial fonts...I am quite a newbie to this ConTeXt
> thing...
>
> I have just done \setupbodyfont[helvetica,ss,12pt] cause
>
> \usetypescript apparently is not recognised in my ConTeXt (previous
> version to the latest update of these days)
\usetypescript is an old command. Your ConTeXt surely knows about
this command.
> what is the use of this \usetypescript thing?
Well, typescripts are complicated. See Bill' page at
http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html
using Helvetica works for me:
--------------------------------------------------
\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\usetypescript [postscript][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[pos,ss,12pt]
\starttext
foo
\stoptext
--------------------------------------------------
> is Arial just a nickname for Helvetica sans-serif?
Well, yes and no.
There is no such thing as Helvetica sans-serif, because Helvetica
*is* without serifs. And Arial and Helvetica are two different fonts,
though similar looking and same metrics. But, depending on your
setup, asking for Helvetica can result in using Arial in Acrobat
Reader.
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-22 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-22 14:05 jimarin
[not found] ` <m2pt7rljz f.fsf@levana.de>
2004-06-22 14:56 ` Patrick Gundlach [this message]
2004-06-22 15:35 ` jimarin
2004-06-22 15:46 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-22 20:21 ` jimarin
2004-06-23 8:23 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-23 8:50 ` Hans Hagen
2004-06-23 9:04 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-23 10:39 ` Hans Hagen
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