On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Marcin Borkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dnia Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:29:41PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater napisał(a): >> >> Hi Marcin, >> >> Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Marcin Borkowski >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks again... I tried to put some info on the wiki (as promised): >> >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/A_Beginner's_Guide_to_Using_Fonts_in_Mark_IV >> >> However, I had serious problems with a few fonts. After skimming >> >> through type-otf.tex I thought these would work, but no - they don't... >> >> (See the above page for which fonts generate problems.) Also, please >> >> check whether the page I've written is correct, especially the last >> >> paragraph... >> >> I have not seen your original post yet, so I am replying to Wolfgang's >> reply. It seems you have misunderstood the system slightly: the >> predefined typescripts are given in table 1.7 of co-typography.pdf, >> the tables in co-fonts.pdf are 'typescript building blocks', and those >> cannot be used directly, you have to write (at least) a \definetypeface >> line for those. > > Well, "misunderstood" is not the right word - it seems I just don't > understand it yet... > > I looked a bit at the type-otf.tex file. At the beginning, it says > something like "\starttypescriptcollection[examples]". Typescripts from > this \start...\stop block work correctly (with the exception of Antykwa > Torunska). Typescripts from the outside don't work (with the exception > of Heros). Maybe I should mimick these definitions somehow? Still, the > cases of Antykwa Torunska and Heros are mysterious to me.
% Antykwa Torunska \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska] \setupbodyfont[antykwa] \starttext Antykwa Torunska \stoptext % Heros/Helvetica \usetypescript[helvetica] \setupbodyfont[helvetica,ss] \starttext TeX-Gyre Heros \stoptext > The table 1.7 you mentioned is also a bit strange: it mentions palatino > as "commercial". Pagella is a free Palatino clone. > What I was aiming at was: how to (easily) use the fonts "shipped with > ConTeXt" (i.e., the Minimals). I would expect them to be usable "out of > the box"; if they are not, please consider this a bug report/feature > request;). In fact, I would expect something like > \useptypescript[pagella] > \setupbodyfont[pagella] > work for the whole collection in the Minimals. > (BTW, why is pagella called palatino etc? I guess that some aliases > could also be default?) Because it's a Palatino clone. > And thanks for the answer - I'm continuosly learning ConTeXt. It > seems that it's not as nice and easy as I thought - but I hope that once > I start using it, more and more things will clarify. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
