Am 24.11.2013 um 18:12 schrieb H. Özoguz
May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts
Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I did not manish to work with this font by simplefonts. I use the following simple setup:
\definefont[arabic][file:bliblablup_0.ttf*arabic at 15pt]
\definefontfeature[fakebold][extend=1.1]
\definefont[arabic][file:<fontname>*arabic,fakebold at 15pt]
\starttext \arabic\setupalign[r2l] ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلْحَىُّ ٱلْقَيُّومُ \stoptext
How can I get these "fake bolds" with this setup? Or is it absolutely necessary to use Simplefont for these fake-bolds?
The feature is unrelated to simplefonts.
Wolfgang
Thanks Wolfgang, but that does not seem to work with this font. See attachment, the font is wider, but not bold.
The extend feature stretches the glyphs to get narrow or wide font but it doesn’t embolden it. The best solution is to get a font with a real bold style, money shouldn’t be a problem because fonts are cheap nowadays. Wolfgang