Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:

Dear Hans,

I fully understand that such complex typescripts can be the only way to use full-featured professional fonts. But if I have only one ttf with one kind of typeface in it, should I write it all? XeTeX style was very appealing for many people, and verbose font definitions may distract these users.

i dunno what xetex style means here, but \font\vladimirscript=name:vladimir*default at 12pt is as minimum as it can gets but normally you want to set up a whole bunch of related things

But anyway, thank you for escaping us from TeX-specific font hell :)

Let me restate my question: is the following definition is really MINIMAL or it can be further reduced in some way?

\starttypescript [serif] [vladimirscript] \definefontsynonym [Serif][name:vladimir][features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [vladimirscript] \definetypeface [vladimirscript] [rm] [serif] [vladimirscript] [default] \stoptypescript

\usetypescript[vladimirscript] \setupbodyfont [vladimirscript, 12pt]

\starttypescript [serif] [vladimirscript] \setups[font:fallback:serif] \definefontsynonym [Serif][name:vladimir][features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [vladimirscript] \definetypeface [vladimirscript] [rm] [serif] [vladimirscript] [default] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[vladimirscript] \setupbodyfont[vladimirscript, 12pt] by adding the setups call, you make sure that your bold etc also uses the same font as fallback ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

2007/8/13, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky :

Hello Hans,

Thank you for the example, it looks really minimal. :)

But nevertheless I cannot make use of it! Should I use \setupbodyfont or other command or nothing then? (I tried some variants, none worked). I currently have this, small and ugly: :)

%engine=luatex \starttext \font\vladimirscript=name:vladimir*default at 36pt \vladimirscript \midaligned{This is my title to be in big vladimir font} \stoptext

-- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

You should also enable then font, it is not enough to define it only. Wolfgang

Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:

Hello Wolfgang,

Thanks. It works!

If you want to get away from the bare \font command but not much more advanced, you can do this, which is a little shorter than your original definition: \starttypescript [serif] [vladimirscript] \definefontsynonym [Serif][name:vladimir][features=default] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [vladimirscript] [rm] [serif] [vladimirscript][default] \setupbodyfont [vladimirscript, 12pt] Best wishes, Taco