Questions regarding simplefonts
Hi again, although simplefonts seems very promising and I put the highest hopes on it, the lack of proper documentation simply prevents me to use it, which is somewhat frustrating. Here are some of my unanswered questions about simplefonts ; I'm willing to update the wiki with any informations this thread could bring. 1) How can I specify that the default font features should enable the standard ligatures (liga) ? I blindly tried several possibilities like \setupsimplefonts[features={liga}] but none worked 2) How can I get \sc to work with a font family whose small caps are defined as a font feature, rather than dedicated .otf files ? 3) How can I get font expansion and protrusion to work using simplefonts' dedicated keywords ? There again, I spent more than 30 minutes trying every combination I could think of, unsuccessfully. I think it would be useful to have a complete example of code involving simplefonts and expansion/protrusion that people could copy & paste from the wiki 4) What is the purpose of the 'mode' keyword ? Many thanks in advance, cheers, Nicolas
2010/1/19 Nicolas Girard
Hi again,
I forgot this one: 5) My log files contain this reassuring message: (/home/ngirard/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.tex loading : ConTeXt User Module / Simplefonts ) immediatly followed with a puzzling one: system : module simplefonts not found Should I ignore it ? -- Nicolas
Am 19.01.10 18:56, schrieb Nicolas Girard:
4) What is the purpose of the 'mode' keyword ? it's the mode option from \definefontfeature, here is a explanation from Taco
http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2009/043782.html Wolfgang
Hi again, although simplefonts seems very promising and I put the highest hopes on it, the lack of proper documentation simply prevents me to use it, which is somewhat frustrating. I try to provide a proper documentation when I release the next version of my module. Here are some of my unanswered questions about simplefonts ; I'm willing to update the wiki with any informations this thread could bring.
1) How can I specify that the default font features should enable the standard ligatures (liga) ? I blindly tried several possibilities like \setupsimplefonts[features={liga}] but none worked Ligatures are enabled in ConTeXt default fontfeature and simplefonts applies only
Am 19.01.10 18:56, schrieb Nicolas Girard: the default features to the font, when you don't get them in your document this could be a font problem, in most cases it helps to select a different script. \setupsimplefonts[script=latin] or \setmainfont[...][script=latin]
2) How can I get \sc to work with a font family whose small caps are defined as a font feature, rather than dedicated .otf files ? The caps font is loaded by default by the smallcaps fontfeature, if this did not work the problem could be the same as for the ligatures. 3) How can I get font expansion and protrusion to work using simplefonts' dedicated keywords ? There again, I spent more than 30 minutes trying every combination I could think of, unsuccessfully. I think it would be useful to have a complete example of code involving simplefonts and expansion/protrusion that people could copy & paste from the wiki
You can use the two keys expamsion ans protrusion, their values are the same as you have e to write in \definefontfeature. \setupsimplefonts[expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] or \setmainfont[...][expansion=quality,protrusion=quality] Examples are available on bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/simplefonts/src/tip/files/ Wolfgang
Hello all, I add my questions regarding simplefonts to this thread too. How to enable em dash and en dash? It looks like I need to set tlig to yes, but with heading pasted below, the --- is not interpreted as em dash. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Times New Roman][script=latin, texligatures=yes] \setsansfont[Arial Unicode MS] \setmonofont[Courier New] \setupbodyfont[10pt] \setuppapersize[C5][C5] \setupindenting[yes, medium, next] \starttext text---text \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Am 20.01.10 08:58, schrieb Marius:
Hello all,
I add my questions regarding simplefonts to this thread too. How to enable em dash and en dash? It looks like I need to set tlig to yes, but with heading pasted below, the --- is not interpreted as em dash.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Times New Roman][script=latin, texligatures=yes] \setmainfont[Times New Roman][mode=node]
It's a problem with the font as you can see in this example: \definefontfeature[default][default][mode=node] % mode=base works \definefont[times][name:timesnewroman*default] \starttext \times text---text \stoptext
\setsansfont[Arial Unicode MS] \setmonofont[Courier New]
\setupbodyfont[10pt] Can you use the module options to change the font size.
\usemodule[simplefonts][size=10pt] or \setupsimplefonts[size=10pt] Wolfgang
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Wolfgang Schuster < schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
Am 20.01.10 08:58, schrieb Marius:
Hello all,
I add my questions regarding simplefonts to this thread too. How to enable em dash and en dash? It looks like I need to set tlig to yes, but with heading pasted below, the --- is not interpreted as em dash.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Times New Roman][script=latin, texligatures=yes]
\setmainfont[Times New Roman][mode=node]
It's a problem with the font as you can see in this example:
\definefontfeature[default][default][mode=node] % mode=base works
\definefont[times][name:timesnewroman*default]
\starttext
\times text---text
\stoptext
I realy do not understand what these \definexxx commands mean, but then I set \setmainfont[Times New Roman][mode=base], I get em dash as expected, thank you.
\setsansfont[Arial Unicode MS] \setmonofont[Courier New]
\setupbodyfont[10pt]
Can you use the module options to change the font size.
\usemodule[simplefonts][size=10pt]
or
\setupsimplefonts[size=10pt]
Why? It works as expected with \setupbodyfont[10pt] too.
Am 20.01.10 14:52, schrieb Marius:
I realy do not understand what these \definexxx commands mean, but then I set \setmainfont[Times New Roman][mode=base], I get em dash as expected, thank you. http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography....
Can you use the module options to change the font size.
Why? It works as expected with \setupbodyfont[10pt] too. Because it's the simplefont method but \setupbodyfont should work too.
Wolfgang
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