Hi to all,
after some "eccentric" projects (musical notation, presentations, posters...) I'm starting my first "core" project with ConTeXt.
We have a review here at the university which has been published until now by a publisher. As we are having bad typography and bad distribution, and, more, we have to pay for these two services, we are moving it to the web as a series of downloadable pdfs (maybe with Lulu support).
Obviously I've proposed ConTeXt.
Now:
- I think I can manage the project organization as I have already done it for other projects following
- I think I can define style, format etc using the manuals and the list archive and support
But:
Fonts are really a mysterious topics. Because of this facts, I have always used default ones. As far as I have understood, The Mk IV issue should simplify the situation but (I really don't want to be indelicate) this is really a horror film for a newbie:
So:
- should I know something about the metrics and other trickery? In that case, really a picture is worth ten thousand words.
- how do I know which fonts are installed by the distro? AFAIK, it seems that this is a fairly complicated topic. Which seems to be pretty bizarre, because if they are unusable, why should they be installed?
Experimenting with
\enableregime[mac]
\usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r]
\usetypescript[palatino][ec] %
\definetypeface[bookman][rm][serif][bookman][default][encoding=ec]
\usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r]
\definetypeface[charter][rm][serif][charter][default][encoding=ec]
\starttext
\setupbodyfont[palatino]
çèòîàùé
\setupbodyfont[pos]
çèòîàùé
\setupbodyfont[bookman]
çèòîàùé
\setupbodyfont[charter]
çèòîàùé
\stoptext
Seems to work but I don't know why and how...
- so, excluding "secret" pre-installed fonts, what I have to do to choose a (free) font ?
- and how do I install it on my machine?
- I.e.: what have I to do? Stay on mark II or switch to mark IV? This "mark" issue has confused me a lot more...:)
I think a real tutorial on the font subject is lacking. All the available infos () in some way require IMHO a relevant knowledge
So I am solemnly saying that I will wikify the discussion...
Many thanks
Best
-a-
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Andrea Valle
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CIRMA - DAMS
Università degli Studi di Torino
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