Dear ConTeXt folk, Is there any simple way to pass font features as a parameter to XeConTeXt? i am thinking of things like what in LaTeX would be (between square brackets) "\setromanfont [AutoFakeSlant=0.5, AutoFakeBold=0.5] {Doulos SIL Phon}". There has to be some way to do this, but I seem unable to find it in the documentatioin I have. RZ
On 7/6/2015 9:13 AM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:
Dear ConTeXt folk,
Is there any simple way to pass font features as a parameter to XeConTeXt? i am thinking of things like what in LaTeX would be (between square brackets) "\setromanfont [AutoFakeSlant=0.5, AutoFakeBold=0.5] {Doulos SIL Phon}".
There has to be some way to do this, but I seem unable to find it in the documentatioin I have.
you can just append the directives to the font names (see type -xtx.mkii for examples). I don't know if AutoFakeBold is some built in feature. Is there a reason why you can't use mkiv with luatex? Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans Hagen wrote:
On 7/6/2015 9:13 AM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:
Dear ConTeXt folk,
Is there any simple way to pass font features as a parameter to XeConTeXt? i am thinking of things like what in LaTeX would be (between square brackets) "\setromanfont [AutoFakeSlant=0.5, AutoFakeBold=0.5] {Doulos SIL Phon}".
There has to be some way to do this, but I seem unable to find it in the documentatioin I have.
you can just append the directives to the font names (see type -xtx.mkii for examples). I don't know if AutoFakeBold is some built in feature. Is there a reason why you can't use mkiv with luatex?
I would like to, but I need to use TrueType fonts for Indian scripts in my work that are supported in XeTeX but not (yet) in LuaTeX. As an experiment, I tried to use the so-called 'long s' in a Fraktur font, which comes out well in XeTeX with LaTeX, but I must be doing something wrong in ConTeXt. Robert Example: % The 'StylisitcSet 11' in the font UnifrakturMaguntia should contain the so-called 'long s'. % Somehow it doesn't work. \starttext \definetypeface [hauptfont] [rm] [Xserif] [Charis SIL] \definetypeface [schoenfont] [rm] [Xserif] [UnifrakturMaguntia] [default] [features={StylisticSet=11}] \switchtobodyfont [hauptfont] Dies ist mit Features, denke ich. {\switchtobodyfont [schoenfont] Und jetzt schreiben wir etwas in Fraktur, das ist ja schöner.} \stoptext
Robert Zydenbos mailto:context@zydenbos.net 6. Juli 2015 12:15
I would like to, but I need to use TrueType fonts for Indian scripts in my work that are supported in XeTeX but not (yet) in LuaTeX.
As an experiment, I tried to use the so-called 'long s' in a Fraktur font, which comes out well in XeTeX with LaTeX, but I must be doing something wrong in ConTeXt.
Robert
Example:
% The 'StylisitcSet 11' in the font UnifrakturMaguntia should contain the so-called 'long s'. % Somehow it doesn't work.
\starttext
\definetypeface [hauptfont] [rm] [Xserif] [Charis SIL] \definetypeface [schoenfont] [rm] [Xserif] [UnifrakturMaguntia] [default] [features={StylisticSet=11}]
\switchtobodyfont [hauptfont] Dies ist mit Features, denke ich.
{\switchtobodyfont [schoenfont] Und jetzt schreiben wir etwas in Fraktur, das ist ja schöner.}
\stoptext Below is a MkIV example where I enabled the Stylistic Set 11 for the Fraktur font.
\definefontfeature [longs] [ss11=yes] \definefontfamily [hauptfont] [rm] [Charis SIL] \definefontfamily [schoenfont] [rm] [Unifraktur Maguntia] [features={default,longs}] \setupbodyfont[hauptfont] \starttext Dies ist mit Features, denke ich. {\switchtobodyfont[schoenfont]Und jetzt schreiben wir etwas in Fraktur, das ist ja schöner.} \stoptext Wolfgang
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