May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts -
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts
Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I did not manish to work with this font by
simplefonts. I use the following simple setup:
\definefont[arabic][file:bliblablup_0.ttf*arabic at 15pt]
\definefontfeature[fakebold][extend=1.1]
\definefont[arabic][file:<fontname>*arabic,fakebold at 15pt]
\starttext \arabic\setupalign[r2l] ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلْحَىُّ ٱلْقَيُّومُ \stoptext
How can I get these "fake bolds" with this setup? Or is it absolutely necessary to use Simplefont for these fake-bolds?
The feature is unrelated to simplefonts.
Wolfgang
Thanks Wolfgang, but that does not seem to work with this font. See attachment, the font is wider, but not bold. ++++++++++++++++ \definefont[arabic][file:bliblablup_0.ttf*arabic at 15pt] \definefont[arabics][file:bliblablup_0.ttf*arabic at 15pt] \definefontfeature[fakebold][extend=1.2] \definefont[arabic][file:bliblablup_0.ttf*arabic,fakebold at 15pt] \starttext \arabic\setupalign[r2l] ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلْحَىُّ ٱلْقَيُّومُ \blank\arabics\setupalign[r2l] ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلْحَىُّ ٱلْقَيُّومُ \stoptext ++++++++++++++++ Huseyin