Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

Dnia Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:29:41PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater napisał(a):

Hi Marcin,

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

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Thanks again... I tried to put some info on the wiki (as promised): http://wiki.contextgarden.net/A_Beginner's_Guide_to_Using_Fonts_in_Mark_IV However, I had serious problems with a few fonts. After skimming through type-otf.tex I thought these would work, but no - they don't... (See the above page for which fonts generate problems.) Also, please check whether the page I've written is correct, especially the last paragraph...

I have not seen your original post yet, so I am replying to Wolfgang's reply. It seems you have misunderstood the system slightly: the predefined typescripts are given in table 1.7 of co-typography.pdf, the tables in co-fonts.pdf are 'typescript building blocks', and those cannot be used directly, you have to write (at least) a \definetypeface line for those.

Well, "misunderstood" is not the right word - it seems I just don't understand it yet... I looked a bit at the type-otf.tex file. At the beginning, it says something like "\starttypescriptcollection[examples]". Typescripts from this \start...\stop block work correctly (with the exception of Antykwa Torunska). Typescripts from the outside don't work (with the exception of Heros). Maybe I should mimick these definitions somehow? Still, the cases of Antykwa Torunska and Heros are mysterious to me. The table 1.7 you mentioned is also a bit strange: it mentions palatino as "commercial". What I was aiming at was: how to (easily) use the fonts "shipped with ConTeXt" (i.e., the Minimals). I would expect them to be usable "out of the box"; if they are not, please consider this a bug report/feature request;). In fact, I would expect something like \useptypescript[pagella] \setupbodyfont[pagella] work for the whole collection in the Minimals. (BTW, why is pagella called palatino etc? I guess that some aliases could also be default?) And thanks for the answer - I'm continuosly learning ConTeXt. It seems that it's not as nice and easy as I thought - but I hope that once I start using it, more and more things will clarify.

Best wishes, Taco

Greets -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.faculty.fmcs.amu.edu.pl) <><