Hans,
Just now I tried your suggestions:
On Aug 8, 2013, at 13:51 , Hans Hagen
Here I see two possibilities:
(1) use the XeTeX parameters FakeSlant and FakeBold, which I have done in LaTeX. But I do not know how this is done in ConTeXt.
\starttext
\definefontfeature[slanted] [slant=.2] \definefontfeature[boldened][extend=1.2]
\definedfont[file:kedage-n*default] ...
The slanting and stretched effects come out nicely -- but the complex combinations of the signs are not supported as they are in XeTeX. XeTeX supports the combinations, but not the effects (see attachments hagen-kan-luatex.pdf and hagen-kan-xetex.pdf).
(2) use the other font files (Kedage-b.TTF etc.), and again I do not know how to do this.
\definefontfeature[slanted] [slant=.2] \definefontfeature[boldened][extend=1.2]
\starttypescript [serif] [kedage] [name] ...
No, unfortunately that one doesn't work so well (see attachment hagen-kan1-luatex.pdf).
in context, there is experimental support for devanagari \definedfont[file:kedage-n*devanagari-one]
but it all depends on what the font provides
Is there any way to find out the font's possibilities, if one doesn't have any technical documentation about it? Robert