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On 3 May 2020, at 15:55, Pablo Rodriguez
On 5/3/20 2:56 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
ConTeXtgarden had theanswer when I searched again:
\setupbodyfont[dejavu] \mainlanguage[russian]
Hi Gerben,
I’m afraid they may be different issues: setting a language and getting the glyphs required for that language.
See the following sample:
\setupbodyfont[dejavu] \mainlanguage[russian] \starttext \hyphenatedword{% Николаевич typography \en typography} \stoptext
Since you set the main language to Russian in the document, you would have to mark all English texts properly. I doubt this may be what you intend.
The way to get a fallback font would be (depending on which approach you use) \definefontfallback or \definefallbackfamily.
A sample of the second option would read:
\definefallbackfamily [mainface] [ss] [FreeSans] [preset=range:cyrillic, force=yes]
In any case, http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/qrcs/setup-en.pdf#search=%22definefontfall... explains the syntax of the first option (sorry, but I only use the \definefontfamily approach).
Just in case it helps,
Thank you. It could help if I would understand ConTeXt better. The link gives me a grammar for a command, but doesn’t tell me what to put in. I tried many, many different permutations, I tried everything I could find on ConTeXtgarden (but then, that also finds me stuff from 15 years ago that isn’t valid anymore), but no luck so far. The last I tried was \starttypescript [sans] [optima] \setups[font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [file:Optima.ttc(Optima Regular)] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [file:Optima.ttc(Optima Bold)] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [file:Optima.ttc(Optima Italic)] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [file:Optima.ttc(Optima Bold Italic)] [features=default] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [optima] [ss] [sans] [optima] [default] \definetypeface [optima] [rm] [serif] [optima] [default] \definetypeface [optima] [tt] [mono] [modern] [default] \definetypeface [optima] [mm] [math] [pagella] [default] \definefallbackfamily [optima] [ss] [file:Helvetica.ttc] [preset=range:cyrillic, force=yes] \setupbodyfont [optima] The error is: fonts > typescripts > unknown library 'optima' open source > level 3, order 6, name '/usr/local/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/type-imp-texgyre.mkiv' close source > level 3, order 6, name '/usr/local/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/fonts/mkiv/type-imp-texgyre.mkiv' selectfont > the requested fallback font 'file:Helvetica.ttc' for typeface 'optima' style 'ss' was ignored because no files where found. Which is weird because Optima.ttc is in the same directory and it is found. I have a lot o difficulty understanding any of the documentation (as far as it is available for the subjects and commands I am lookng for). For instance: what is the difference between the “Syntax (autogenerated)” and “Syntax entries on ConTeXtgarden? If they differ which one should I take? If you tell me “preset=range:cyrillic and what I find says "range=cyrillic", which one do I use ( in this case, changing did not help). There are just too many things that can be different for tial and error to be effective. But anyway, even if I could understand it, I can’t find anything useful (that is: something that works or makes me try something that works) about font fallbacks. Spending hours of looking (losing a lot of sleep) and then having to bother the list again is very frustrating. Why isn’t this straightforward? I am sorry, everybody is very helpful, but the frustration mounts again. G