Re: [NTG-context] old style nums

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:56:10 -0700 "Idris Samawi Hamid" wrote:

Hi Wolfgang,

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:09:16 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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What is the official way to get old style numerals in 11pt in mkiv? I'm just using lm.

It depends what do you want to achieve, local changes can be done with \os, but this will use numbers from the math font.

That's exactly why \os is almost useless (it messes up itemizations and other stuff); better to \switchtotypeface, even for local changes.

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option two is to write \setfontfeature{oldstyle} in the preamble of your document and ConTeXt use oldstyle numbers by default if present in the current font.

You also have to define "oldstyle" :-)

No, you don't have to, because oldstyle is predefined in type-ini.tex, two other predefined fontfeatures are "default" and "smallcaps" :-)

========================================== % engine=luatex

\definefontfeature [oldstyle] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=latn,onum=yes,tnum=yes]

\setfontfeature{oldstyle}

\starttext

1234567890

\stoptext ==========================================

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There is currently no better way to enable oldstyle number for the whole document except you define your own typescripts and use them.

I spent hours today writing and debugging a huge typescript for lm (all those optical sizes, since i could not for the life of me get it to piggy-back the def's in type-siz). I just got it working flawlessly a few minutes ago -- sublime, a work of art even -- then I get your message which would have saved me hours of work! I just needed that one command!!!

You're an angel, just wish I got this this morning ;-)

Best wishes Idris

PS Note that tnum (tabular version) looks better than onum alone, but is a function of onum in the font so cannot be invoked unless onum is invoked first.

\definefontfeature[onum][onum=yes] \definefontfeature[lnum][lnum=yes] \definefontfeature[tnum][tnum=yes,onum=yes] \definefontfeature[pnum][pnum=yes] \starttext \setfontfeature{onum}123456789\par \setfontfeature{lnum}123456789\par \setfontfeature{tnum}123456789\par \setfontfeature{pnum}123456789\par \stoptext Wolfgang