Dnia Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:54:46PM +0100, Hans Hagen napisał(a): > Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I'm going to start using ConTeXt; I've been planning to do so for a few > > years, but now I finally have Internet access at home, so it's easier > > for me to look things up in the wiki (or ask here;)). > > > > I have two questions. The first one is connected with fonts. I can't > > understand ConTeXt's font mechanism, which seems way too complicated for > > me; could anyone just tell me how I can switch to, e.g., Antykwa > > Poltawskiego (I'm Polish, so I'd like to use it;)) or, say, Pagella? Of > > course, I'd also like to be able to typeset Polish texts with them; will > > \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] > \usetypescript[palatino][qx] > > \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] >
Thanks a lot - it works! But... 1) when I substituted pagella for palatino, it stopped working; 2) and I still don't understand what's going on... I assume that \usetypescriptfile takes one argument, the name of the file with definitions. I assume that \usetypescript somehow defines a typescript - but the syntax is unclear to me... Finally, \setupbodyfont seems clear - it actually "chooses" given font. Am I right? (Sorry for being a nuisance - I just want to understand what's happening, at least approximately, so that I can switch to whatever fonts I'd like to, assuming they are quite "standard" and hence pre-configured in ConTeXt.) > > \enableregime[utf-8] > > \mainlanguage[pl] > > > be enough (apart, of course, from adapting ConTeXt to Polish typography > > customs, like dots after chapter numbers etc.)? > > that should be set up already (\mainlanguage does that) > Well, dots after chapter numbers didn't appear (this should be easy to do with \setuphead etc., however). I'd have to experiment a bit to see what exactly is done by \mainlanguage. Or is there some place I could read about it? > > I think that that's what the wiki lacks: a beginner's guide on _using_ > > fonts (not _installing_ them or _messing_;) with them). If someone > > enlightens me on this, I could write something on the wiki about it. > > most free fonts that ship with tex live are already set up (and you can > make combinations of them, which is what typefaces is about) > > it mostly bpild down to choosing a proper font encoding (qx in your case) > I see. Still, there are amost no clues in the wiki on how to use them... I hope to grasp it some day and explain on the wiki then;). That makes my conscience more clear about asking you again;). > > And the second, a bit "philosophical" question: the official manual is > > not so new. How do I learn ConTeXt best? I mean, are changes to the > > user interface since 2001 so big that I could run into troubles using > > the manual? Or are there some changes which make something > > easier/possible which was difficult/impossible at the time or writing > > the manual - how do I learn about these? > > no changes to the user interface, only additional features (often > discussed in dedicated manuals) OK. That sounds good, especially that I'm planning to do some XML typesetting using ConTeXt soon - I hope that example.pdf will be enough for my purposes;). You see, I'm a kind of guy who has nothing against being said "RTFM"; but I couldn't understand the documentation on fonts... But I don't want to give up, and when I know what's going on I'll be happy to explain it somewhere in the wiki, partially for others and partially for myself, in case I forget something;)... > > Hans > Thanks a lot for your help! -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.faculty.fmcs.amu.edu.pl) Jezus żyje NAPRAWDĘ. A Ty? ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
