Re: [NTG-context] MS Office Chinese fonts in ConTeXt

27 Aug 2017

      On 8/27/2017 4:17 AM, Martin Bruchanov wrote:
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Hi all,
I was trying to create a Chinese document. However, it was quite 
difficult to find actual information and find fonts...
Here is the result:
https://github.com/BruXy/ConTeXt-Chinese
There is still wrong numbering of Tables and I am not sure how to 
convert mschinese.ctex into module, but maybe somebody will help.
These are old fonts yes? Anyway, here is a better typescript:
\starttypescriptcollection[microsoft-chinese-old]

     \starttypescript [serif] [mschinese,mschinese-light]
         \definefontsynonym [STSong]      [name:STSong] 
[features=chinese]
         \definefontsynonym [STKaiti]     [name:STKaiti] 
[features=chinese]
         \definefontsynonym [STZHongsong] [name:STZHongsong] 
[features=chinese]
         \definefontsynonym [STFangsong]  [name:STFangsong] 
[features=chinese]
     \stoptypescript

     \starttypescript [sans] [mschinese]
         \definefontsynonym [STXIHei] [name:STXIHei] [features=chinese]
     \stoptypescript

     \starttypescript [serif] [mschinese]
         \usetypescript[serif][fallback]
         \definefontsynonym [Serif]       [STSong]      [features=chinese]
         \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [STKaiti]     [features=chinese]
         \definefontsynonym [SerifBold]   [STZHongsong] [features=chinese]
     \stoptypescript

     \starttypescript [serif] [mschinese-light]
         \usetypescript[serif][fallback]
         \definefontsynonym [Serif]       [STFangsong]  [features=chinese]
         \definefontsynonym [Serif]       [STSong]      [features=chinese]
         \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [STKaiti]     [features=chinese]
         \definefontsynonym [SerifBold]   [STZHongsong] [features=chinese]
     \stoptypescript

     \starttypescript [sans] [mschinese]
         \setups[font:fallback:sans]
         \definefontsynonym [Sans] [STXIHei] [features=chinese]
     \stoptypescript

     \starttypescript[mschinese]
         \definetypeface [mschinese] [rm] [serif] [mschinese] [default]
         \definetypeface [mschinese] [ss] [sans]  [mschinese] [default]
         \definetypeface [mschinese] [mm] [math]  [pagella]
         \definetypeface [mschinese] [tt] [mono]  [modern]
     \stoptypescript

     \starttypescript[mschinese-light]
         \definetypeface [mschinese] [rm] [serif] [mschinese-light] 
[default]
         \definetypeface [mschinese] [ss] [sans]  [mschinese] 
[default]
         \definetypeface [mschinese] [mm] [math]  [modern]
         \definetypeface [mschinese] [tt] [mono]  [modern]
     \stoptypescript

\stoptypescriptcollection

if needed I can add type-imp-windows-chinese.mkiv but we need to be sure 
about the name(s).

In your test you need:

\setupbodyfont [mschinese,12pt]
\usebodyfont   [mschinese-light,12pt]  % preloads

\definebodyfontenvironment[24pt] % prevents messages
\definebodyfontenvironment[18pt] % prevents messages

There is no need to enable utf. Your table now becomes:

\bTABLEbody
\bTR\bTD 华文宋体 \eTD\bTD \tt STSONG.TTF   \eTD\bTD STSong      \eTD\bTD 
\tf  我能吞下玻璃而不伤身体 \eTD \eTR
\bTR\bTD 华文中宋 \eTD\bTD \tt STZHONGS.TTF \eTD\bTD STZhongsong \eTD\bTD 
\bf  我能吞下玻璃而不伤身体 \eTD \eTR
\bTR\bTD 华文细黑 \eTD\bTD \tt STXIHEI.TTF  \eTD\bTD STXihei     \eTD\bTD 
\it  我能吞下玻璃而不伤身体 \eTD \eTR
\bTR\bTD 华文楷体 \eTD\bTD \tt STKAITI.TTF  \eTD\bTD STKaiti     \eTD\bTD 
\ss  我能吞下玻璃而不伤身体 \eTD \eTR
\bTR\bTD 华文仿宋 \eTD\bTD \tt STFANGSO.TTF \eTD\bTD STFangsong  \eTD\bTD 
\switchtobodyfont[mschinese-light]我能吞下玻璃而不伤身体 \eTD \eTR
\eTABLEbody

There is no need for grouping. You switch to sans with \ss as it's part 
of the typeface specification.

For other issues you need to be more specific

Hans

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