Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 69, Issue 77
Henning Hraban Ramm:
\usetypsecript [GaramondPrem]
Here's a typo.
Yes, that was it, thank you. Now when I run it it gives me... ... Latin Modern.
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Hans Hagen:
My guess is: <typeface> switch serif \rm sans \ss mono \tt math \mm ?? \hw ?? \cg and that Context only permits these six families?
it can support as many as you want but only a few make sense
If you say so!
you can combine such combinations in typefaces and mix then any way and use multiple such mixtures in one document
I'm sure it's easy if you know how. I'm just trying to find out how.
(major axis: rm, it, sl, ui; minor axis: rg, ac, sc, sw, in, su, nu, de, po, pl, to, tl + ornaments, which handles all of the variations that Adobe makes, anyway). Maybe I'll be able to reproduce it once I get this working.
sounds complex ..
It's very easy to use, and it allows me to access any feature of my fonts with a digraph switch. Also, it keeps the different kinds of shapes on independent axes, so I can say: \it 123 \in 456 \bd 238 \rm 909 to get the numbers set in: italic; italic inferiors; bold italic inferiors; bold roman inferiors, because I also have the weight and width on separate axes. I can't imagine anything simpler to use.
it's more like:
[typefaceone|typefacetwo|...| [rm|ss|tt|..] [tf|it|..]
That looks like a much more complicated font switch. What command are those arguments to?
so if you want a smallcaps set, you'd best do something
\definetypeface[Whatever] [....] \definetypeface[WhateverSmallcaps][....]
and then switch the lot to smallcaps using a typeface switch (which is quite fast) instead of defining all kind of extra smallcaps instances within the main typeface
You are saying that putting: \definetypeface[WhateverSmallcaps] [undocumented argument] [undocumented argument] [some other typescript somewhere] in one file and then invoking it in another with (I think maybe?): \usetypescript[that other typescript from somewhere] \usebodyfont[WhateverSmallcaps] is easier than saying: \sc ?
On 14-3-2010 17:21, Michael Saunders wrote:
It's very easy to use, and it allows me to access any feature of my fonts with a digraph switch. Also, it keeps the different kinds of shapes on independent axes, so I can say: \it 123 \in 456 \bd 238 \rm 909 to get the numbers set in:
such short commands can clash ... for instance \in is a command already
italic; italic inferiors; bold italic inferiors; bold roman inferiors, because I also have the weight and width on separate axes. I can't imagine anything simpler to use.
in one file and then invoking it in another with (I think maybe?): \usetypescript[that other typescript from somewhere] \usebodyfont[WhateverSmallcaps]
is easier than saying:
\sc
\WhateverSmallcaps would work as well the advantage is that if you then do {\WhateverSmallcaps bla \bf bla} you'd get a bold smallcaps, given that there is one; if we're talking open type, a dynamic feature switch works as well: \addff{smallcaps} some of these mkii things (\os, \sc) are often side effects of tex originally using cm fonts mostly, where oldstyle were sitting in a math font so we needed a special command Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Michael Saunders wrote:
I can't imagine anything simpler to use.
That may be a lack of imagination on your part. If you want something that follows LaTeX rules, it might be a good idea to use LaTeX. It would have been a good idea to say so from the start instead of wasting my time. Thomas
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