[NTG-context] Basic font question (Optima, but no bold, no italics)

kaddour kardio kaddourkardio at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 05:19:07 CEST 2020


It's noticed that Optima is a Sans Serif font.
Maybe it conflicts with MacOS way to handle fonts.


Le ven. 24 avr. 2020 à 01:10, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at yandex.ru> a écrit :

> Hello,
> ** Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl> [2020-04-23 23:57:26 +0200]:
>
> >> On 23 Apr 2020, at 19:18, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml at fiee.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Am 23.04.2020 um 16:42 schrieb Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl>:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 23 Apr 2020, at 16:34, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml at fiee.net> wrote:
> >>>>
>
> [...]
>
> >>>> What do you get from
> >>>> mtxrun --script=fonts --list --all --pattern=Optima
> >>>
> >>> hermione:Export and Metapost gerben$ mtxrun --script fonts --list
> --all --pattern=optima
> >>> identifier         familyname   fontname           filename
>                subfont   instances
> >>>
> >>> optimablack        optima       optimaextrablack
>  /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc   5
> >>> optimabold         optima       optimabold
>  /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc   2
> >>> optimabolditalic   optima       optimabolditalic
>  /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc   4
> >>> optimaextrablack   optima       optimaextrablack
>  /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc   5
> >>> optimaitalic       optima       optimaitalic
>  /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc   3
> >>> optimanormal       optima       optimaregular
> /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc   1
> >>> optimaregular      optima       optimaregular
> /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc   1
> >>
> >> Hm. Here, ConTeXt only found subfont #5 until I rebuilt the font cache,
> then it looked like yours.
> >>
> >> And the minimal example (plus \starttext ... \stoptext) worked.
> >>
> >> (Latest ConTeXt on MacOS Mojave.)
>
> > No such luck for me. Any help welcome. I did remove the macOS font cache
> > with sudo atsutil databases -remove and I rebooted. I am running an up to
> > date macOS Mojave.
>
> I think Henning Hraban Ramm meant not OS font cache (but may be including
> it,
> I'm not a Mac OS user) but context font cache. Run
>
> $ mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force
>
> and try above '--list --all ...' command again and your example:
>
> > \starttext
> > \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][Optima]
> > \setupbodyfont[mainface,10pt]
>
> > {\bf Bold} and {\it Italic} and {\rm Regular} text.
> > \stoptext
>
> Hope this will resolve you issue.
>
> [...]
>
> ---
> WBR, Vladimir Lomov
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