On 2010-12-04 <17:38:07>, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 23:57, Philipp Gesang wrote:
[2] Can we get the strings \definesystemconstant{SerifSemiBold} \definesystemconstant{SerifSemiBoldItalic} added to mult-sys.mkiv? This would allow the use of “\s!SerifSemiBold” in typescripts.
You can leave the \s! out and simply define "SerifSemiBold" if you want.
Of course, but imagine those uneven exceptions in the source …
For other fonts you could have defined an enormous amount of different synonyms, while you wouldn't have any shortcut such as \bi, \bs etc.
You can take a look at http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2010/talks/2010-09-15-mojca-fonts/some-thou... Not so much about the idea, but just to get the idea how big the families could be and how many names you would have to invent (it's in the order of a few hundred if not more to be able to cover everything).
And even then there would be no easy way to switch unless you know the exact font name anyway.
You have some (as in: lots of) valid points in the paper. Font selection, for instance, is a pain -- in my case, simplefonts just picks the bold weight for “\rm” and I can’t blame it because of the unpredictable nomenclature. The best thing that could happen would be a tool like xfontsel for the context font database. However, after looking at the naming schemes of too many fonts I doubt it could be written.
Hans started some basic support (but it needs to be polished out a bit). See for example tex/context/fonts/antykwapoltawskiego.lfg in your TeX tree.
This looks very promising. I did the same thing to my font (which is much smaller than antpołt) and had success loading it through “\loadfontgoodies” -- but it doesn’t quite serve as a typescript for font loading yet, does it? (Attached) Thanks for the insights, Philipp
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