On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Richard Stephens wrote:

On 2 June 2011 15:26, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 2-6-2011 3:57, Richard Stephens wrote:

I've tried making sense of the type-win.mkiv file but it's beyond me! Any

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suggestions how to get \tt to use Courier New, for instance?

\setupbodyfont[mcore]

Sorry Hans, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do with that command.

There was a typo there. It should be \setupbodyfont[mscore] MkIV defines a typescript for microsoft core fonts called mscore. In recent version of context, you don't need to specify \setuptypescript, \setupbodyfont does that for you. So, just include that command on the top of your file, and it should work. Aditya

Am 02.06.2011 um 22:56 schrieb Pontus Lurcock:

On Thu 02 Jun 2011, Richard Stephens wrote:

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\setupbodyfont[helvetica, 10pt]

which is indistinguishable from Arial for 99% of the population, and it has the advantage that all the styles are already defined, including \tt.

Anyone who can distinguish Helvetica from Arial is likely to have sufficient taste to realize that Helvetica is superior ;-).

But you can have somebody how takes a look at the font list in Adobe Reader and complains that you don’t use Arial. ConTeXt has predefined typescripts for Times New Roman, Arial and Courier but they don’t work on each system (e.g. the fonts use different filenames on the Mac). The simplefonts module makes things a little bit easier because it tries a few combinations to find the files but it still depends on the filename. \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Arial] \setmonofont[Courier New] \starttext This Arial in combination with {\tt Courier New}. \stoptext The spec-system is another system to make font loading easier but the quality of the result depends on the font information which are sometimes a mess. \definetypeface[mainface][ss][specsans][Arial] \definetypeface[mainface][tt][specmono][Courier New] \setupbodyfont[mainface] \starttext This Arial in combination with {\tt Courier New}. \stoptext Wolfgang