Re: [NTG-context] Basic font question (Optima, but no bold, no italics). Standalone ConTeXt does not work. TeX Live 2019 works

Although this specific issue might have been solved meanwhile by the helpful suggestions of Wolfang, Thomas and others, I would like to point out that I have recently also encountered an odd behaviour of the mtxrun fontloader in the standalone, in which not all typefaces are available/properly identified. (I’m sorry to hijack this thread if this is unrelated.) Basically, when I load “Helvetica Neue”, I get instead of “regular/normal” always “light/italic”. I have switched to heros for the meantime, but potentially there is some bug behind this. (My documents with the version from Dec/Jan worked fine.) I recite my example from Wed: ConTeXt ver: 2020.01.30 14:13 MKIV beta fmt: 2020.4.22 (LuaTeX 1.11.1) and I’m running now into troubles with system font indexing: mtxrun --script fonts --reload locates fonts in macOS directories appropriately (*.afm fonts placed in .../tex/texmf-fonts are not found, but at the moment I don’t care too much), however it resolves only to a single font variant for *.ttc instead of all variants: mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=helvetica helvetica helvetica helveticalightoblique /System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.ttc 6 helveticalightoblique helvetica helveticalightoblique /System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.ttc 6 helveticaneuedeskinterfaceheavy helveticaneuedeskinterface helveticaneuedeskinterfaceheavy /System/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeueDeskInterface.ttc 10 helveticaneuethinitalic helveticaneue helveticaneuethinitalic /System/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeue.ttc 14 As a consequence, when I run \definefontfamily[mainface][ss][Helvetica Neue] \setupbodyfont[mainface, 12pt, sans] I get the light oblique variant instead of the regular one. I have tried to fix this via a \definefontfamily[mainface][ss][Helvetica Neue][tf=style:normal] but apparently I understand too little about this setup altogether … Thanks already for any suggestions!

On 24 Apr 2020, at 08:53, ntg-context-request@ntg.nl wrote:

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1. Re: Basic font question (Optima, but no bold, no italics). Standalone ConTeXt does not work. TeX Live 2019 works (Wolfgang Schuster)

From: Wolfgang Schuster Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Basic font question (Optima, but no bold, no italics). Standalone ConTeXt does not work. TeX Live 2019 works Date: 24 April 2020 at 08:53:52 CEST To: mailing list for ConTeXt users , Gerben Wierda

Gerben Wierda schrieb am 24.04.2020 um 08:48:

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With Arial:

\definefontfamily[mainface][rm][Arial] \setupbodyfont[mainface,10pt]

with Optima:

\definefontfamily[mainface][rm][Optima] \setupbodyfont[mainface,10pt]

It doesn’t matter if the font statements are before or after \starttext

Then I thought, let’s test some other things. I logged in as another user, and used ConTeXt from TeX Live 2019:

It seems to be that on my system, the standalone installed ConTeXt does not work with Optima, but the TeX Live installed one does.

Can you try this:

\definefontfamily [mainface] [rm] [Optima] [it=optimaitalic, bf=optimabold, bi=optimabolditalic]

Wolfgang

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