Google's Roboto Flex font typescript and goodies definition.
Dear Everyone, Following my attempts to create and learn Context's ways to manage fonts, I would like to ask about the following: I've created the structure for fonts in texmf-local folder and after running scripts they are listed. The output for Roboto Flex is as follows: identifier familyname fontname filename subfont instances robotoflex robotoflex robotoflexregular robotoflex.ttf thin extralight light regular medium semibold bold extrabold black extrablack thinitalic extralightitalic lightitalic italic mediumitalic semibolditalic bolditalic extrabolditalic blackitalic extrablackitalic What is the proper way to use family name or font name to create a typescript file and a goodies file to take advantage of optical sizes. Google's Roboto Flex is an upgraded Roboto as a variable font. I know that this topic has been discussed many times and I've read the fonts manual but still have these questions. Most of the examples are rather ready solutions or templates but not always cover ways how to figure out values from scratch and how they correspond. Thanks for help, Pawel
On 4/18/2023 12:37 PM, Pawel Urbanski via ntg-context wrote:
Dear Everyone, Following my attempts to create and learn Context's ways to manage fonts, I would like to ask about the following:
I've created the structure for fonts in texmf-local folder and after running scripts they are listed. The output for Roboto Flex is as follows: identifier familyname fontname filename subfont instances
robotoflex robotoflex robotoflexregular robotoflex.ttf thin extralight light regular medium semibold bold extrabold black extrablack thinitalic extralightitalic lightitalic italic mediumitalic semibolditalic bolditalic extrabolditalic blackitalic extrablackitalic
What is the proper way to use family name or font name to create a typescript file and a goodies file to take advantage of optical sizes. Google's Roboto Flex is an upgraded Roboto as a variable font.
I know that this topic has been discussed many times and I've read the fonts manual but still have these questions. Most of the examples are rather ready solutions or templates but not always cover ways how to figure out values from scratch and how they correspond. all these naames and combining them into 'regular-bold' pairs is pretty much a visual thing as these names are not used consistently; when you just use four fonts, a simple few line tyopescript will do (no need to make an imp file, just put it in your style)
(variable fonts is not really improving this) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Hans, I will write what I want to acomplish. While it is definitely thrivial, I'm either missing something obvious or more experienced users suffer from the curse of knowledge.
I want ot use Roboto Flex for my chapter and section heads with Garamond Premier for the body contents.
I followed the Context wiki example and consistant examples from the web.
Here is my code: \usemodule[fonts-variable] \definefontfamily[roboto-flex][ss][rotoboflex] % robotoflex.ttf is the recognized font file name. \setuphead[chapter] [style={\switchtobodyfont[roboto-flex,20pt]\ss}]
While the Garamond is embedded and text is styled, the chapter tible is typeset with Garamond not Roboto.
Any hints or feed back will be very appriciated.
Thank you, Pawel
Hi Hans, I will write what I want to acomplish. While it is definitely thrivial, I'm either missing something obvious or more experienced users suffer from the curse of knowledge. I want ot use Roboto Flex for my chapter and section heads with Garamond Premier for the body contents. I followed the Context wiki example and consistant examples from the web. Here is my code: \usemodule[fonts-variable] \definefontfamily[roboto-flex][ss][rotoboflex] % robotoflex.ttf is the recognized font file name. \setuphead[chapter] [style={\switchtobodyfont[roboto-flex,20pt]\ss}] While the Garamond is embedded and text is styled, the chapter tible is typeset with Garamond not Roboto. Any hints or feed back will be very appriciated. Thank you, Pawel
On 4/18/2023 3:52 PM, Pawel Urbanski via ntg-context wrote:
Hi Hans, I will write what I want to acomplish. While it is definitely thrivial, I'm either missing something obvious or more experienced users suffer from the curse of knowledge.
I want ot use Roboto Flex for my chapter and section heads with Garamond Premier for the body contents.
I followed the Context wiki example and consistant examples from the web.
Here is my code: \usemodule[fonts-variable] \definefontfamily[roboto-flex][ss][rotoboflex] % robotoflex.ttf is the recognized font file name. \setuphead[chapter] [style={\switchtobodyfont[roboto-flex,20pt]\ss}]
While the Garamond is embedded and text is styled, the chapter tible is typeset with Garamond not Roboto.
Any hints or feed back will be very appriciated. \usetypescriptfile[ebgaramond]
\starttypescript [sans] [robotoflex] \setups[font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [name:robotoflexregular] \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [name:robotoflexregularitalic] \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [name:robotoflexregularbold] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic][name:robotoflexregularbolditalic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[robocop] \definetypeface [\typescriptone] [rm] [serif] [ebgaramond] [default] \definetypeface [\typescriptone] [ss] [sans] [robotoflex] [default] \definetypeface [\typescriptone] [tt] [mono] [dejavu] [default] [rscale=0.8] \definetypeface [\typescriptone] [mm] [math] [ebgaramond] [default] \stoptypescript \setupbodyfont[robocop] \setuphead[chapter][style=\ssbfd] \starttext \startchapter[title=Whatever] \input tufte \stopchapter \page \usemodule[fonts-variable] \showfontvariations[font=file:robotoflex.ttf] \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Hans, Thank you for the template. Roboto Flex gets embedded in the generated PDF document. I read the co-fonts manual and the wiki once again. I'll try to put together a handful of ideas for rewriting the wiki to make certain concepts more friendly for beginners. My next step will be to create a proper working type-imp-roboto-flex.mkiv and type-imp-roboto.mkiv for the non-variable font edtion to be more portable. Roboto is a very good font and is recommended as a body font for presentations or headings, which made me use in the first place. I must admit that I am struggling a bit but will try to take small steps when creating that typescrip definition file. All the best and thank you, Pawel
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