Patrick Gundlach said this at Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:11:49 +0100:

"Adam Lindsay" writes:

Hello Adam,

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I know no simple way of doing this. I have a typescript set up for this, though: \starttypescript [Time]

[..]

how do I use this? I have tried for the last .... hours. The

Sorry I wasn't clear. I assumed too much. I spent an entire weekend working through this stuff at the start.

typescript/font mechanism is far too high for me.

Patrick, nearly everything I knew about fonts in ConTeXt was learned from Bill McClain's excellent resource: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html Basically, you put this into one file, say "font-ttt.tex": %--- begin font-ttt.tex --- \starttypescript [Time] \usetypescript [berry] [8r] \definetypeface [Time] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=8r] \definetypeface [Time] [ss] [sans] [helvetica] [default] [rscale=.9,encoding=8r] \definetypeface [Time] [tt] [mono] [computer-modern] [default] [rscale=1.1,encoding=ec] \definetypeface [Time] [mm] [math] [times] [default] [encoding=8r] \stoptypescript %--- end --- Preface your actual text source file with the following: %--- begin usetime.tex --- \usetypescriptfile[font-tmm] \usetypescript[Time] \setupbodyfont[Time,12pt] \starttext \showfontstrip \input tufte \startalignment[right] {\tt \input zapf } \stopalignment \stoptext %--- end --- I haven't been clever enough to figure out how to include the typescript in the same file that I'm ConTeXting. My guess is that this is because of a (reasonable) assumption of wanting to reuse typescripts.

Is there any description /documentation of the typescript mechanism? Besides mfont.pdf? mfont is not clear enough. There are only some examples but no real explanation how this mechanism works. At least I cannot see it.

I really can't help you there... I'm still at the point of imitating examples, really, myself. You can also try typesetting some of the documentation, like font-ini.tex, by copying the file into your own directory, and typing: texexec --pdf --module font-ini.tex (This requires that you did the recommended nl interface installation. It gives me an error at one point, but switching to silent mode by typing 's' allowed it to continue.) I hope that's of some help, even though it's yet another example. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

At 08:39 PM 1/29/2003 +0100, you wrote:

"Adam Lindsay" writes:

Hello Adam,

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Sorry I wasn't clear. I assumed too much. I spent an entire weekend working through this stuff at the start.

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typescript/font mechanism is far too high for me.

Patrick, nearly everything I knew about fonts in ConTeXt was learned from Bill McClain's excellent resource: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html

I have visited this page again. I guess I have to put it under my pillow and read it every evening. Perhaps one day I know how to...

I've got it working now. Thank you very much. One thing I'd like to comment: i think tat rscale=1.1 for cmtt is a bit too large.

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Basically, you put this into one file, say "font-ttt.tex":

consider that method to be kind of obsolete and put the ttt in a typescript since those are located first \starttypescript [ttt] \stoptypescript somewhere in a file, say patrick \usetypescriptfile[patrick] Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

I really can't help you there... I'm still at the point of imitating examples, really, myself. You can also try typesetting some of the

Perhaps you'd like to use my attached script for font installation. It copies font files (makes all lowercase), fixes some AFM problems (overlong lines), runs texfont and writes a basic typescript that contains some comments how to use it. I'll enhance it somewhen, but until then you must change the "hardcoded" paths in this two lines: # if there's no environment variable TEXMF, set it to default (!$ENV{TEXMF}) && ($ENV{TEXMF} = "/usr/TeX/texmf"); # default on MacOSX... # install everything in texmf-var: $TeXRoot = $ENV{TEXMF}."-var"; Cry if you'd like a bunch of working typescript examples. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

Hans Hagen writes: Hello again,

selecting them is a matter of best match, say [key a] or [key a][key b] or ... so

\usetypescript [key a] [key b]

filters all instances that match those first two keys (actually sets of keys)

I have: \starttypescript [aaa] [bbb][ccc] \def\hello{abc} \stoptypescript and: \starttext \usetypescriptfile[patrick] \usetypescript [aaa][bbb] \message {\hello} \stoptext I get: undefined control sequence \hello. So it looks as if I have to write \usetypescript [aaa][bbb][ccc] or \usetypescript [aaa][bbb][all] to get the above defined typescript. Patrick

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:34:30 +0100:

That one should be in an external file, which is registered by

\usetypescriptfile[thatfile]

Okay, so with reference to the new My Way module, if I were to, say, create a typescriptfile to illustrate a font combination or two, would the "source code of this document" section easily accommodate the calling in of an external file? (Sure, I guess the answer is learn about buffers and the like.) The real question is, will the elegant self-documenting format still hold with the necessity of putting typescripts in external files? Sorry, I'll back off. I'm getting too eager about something you haven't officially announced yet. Thanks, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Hans Hagen writes: OK, i did not express myself well enough.

That one should be in an external file, which is registered by

\usetypescriptfile[thatfile]

I have \starttypescript [aaa] [bbb][ccc] \def\hello{abc} \stoptypescript in a file called patrick.tex \starttext \usetypescriptfile[patrick] \usetypescript [aaa][bbb] \message {\hello} \stoptext And my comment/question is: I get: undefined control sequence \hello. So it looks as if I have to write \usetypescript [aaa][bbb][ccc] or \usetypescript [aaa][bbb][all] to get the above defined typescript. It is not a matter of 'file not found'. More a matter of key (mis)match for \usetypescript. Patrick

At 05:25 PM 1/29/2003 +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote:

I know no simple way of doing this. I have a typescript set up for this, though: \starttypescript [Time] \usetypescript [berry] [8r] \definetypeface [Time] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=8r] \definetypeface [Time] [ss] [sans] [helvetica] [default] [rscale=.9,encoding=8r] \definetypeface [Time] [tt] [mono] [computer-modern] [default] [rscale=1.1,encoding=ec] \definetypeface [Time] [mm] [math] [times] [default] [encoding=8r] \stoptypescript

I find it preferable to pos because courier is far too light. I'd love to hear of an easier way, though.

\usetypescript[times][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[times] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

At 11:34 AM 1/30/2003 +0100, you wrote:

Hans Hagen writes:

Hello,

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\usetypescript[times][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[times]

This switches to a complete new typescript. But is it possible to change the *tt* only?

I think that scaling to 1.1 too big. In my opinion 1.03 fits the times' visual appearence.

Strange.. the acrobat reader tells me that the urw times (NimbusRomNo9L-Regu) *and* Times-Roman (substituted by TimesNewRomanPSMT) are used...

hm, maybe something slanted is not understood to be times; anyway: i always include the 15 base fonts and don't trust/rely on the built-ins Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------