Re: [NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-05 Thread Sandra Snan
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:24:08 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Below is a short example which shows the different names in a font, as you can see in the output the names in each font are different except from the familyname entry which is the same for all. It

Re: [NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-05 Thread Sandra Snan
On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:53:02 -0700, Mica Semrick m...@silentumbrella.com wrote: On Debian, you can try: fc-list : family to list the family name. I was playing with this last night on my Debian Jessie system. The colon is a wildcard operator that will match all fonts on the system. I

Re: [NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-05 Thread Keith McKay
Wolfgang's wee bit of code is brilliant for finding out the details of font names. The icing on the cake would be if it printed the details in its own font so we could see what it looked like. But in any case a useful bit of code. Thanks Wolfgang. Best Wishes Keith McKay On 04/09/2014

Re: [NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-04 Thread Sandra Snan
Thank you so much for your help, guys! On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 00:21:22 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 03.09.2014 um 21:40 schrieb Joshua Krämer joshua.krae...@gmail.com: [...] The only name which works in ConTeXt is the family name (which can be seen in

Re: [NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 04.09.2014 um 09:15 schrieb Sandra Snan sandra.s...@idiomdrottning.org: %% Just as a test for \definefontfamily, which works, text shows up in %% DejaVu Serif which is a ttf font. % \definefontfamily [five] [serif] [DejaVu Serif] %% This is what fontforge reports as the family name for

Re: [NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-04 Thread Mica Semrick
On Debian, you can try: fc-list : family to list the family name. I was playing with this last night on my Debian Jessie system. The colon is a wildcard operator that will match all fonts on the system. I usually just grep the results for what I need. You may want to refresh the font cache,

Re: [NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-03 Thread Joshua Krämer
On 2014-09-01, 21:20, Sandra Snan wrote: This is probably a pretty basic question, but how do I find out the name of the font that \definefontfamily expects in the third argument? Hi Sandra, the only reliable method I have found is to inspect the font with FontForge. Here is an example: the

Re: [NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 01.09.2014 um 21:20 schrieb Sandra Snan sandra.s...@idiomdrottning.org: This is probably a pretty basic question, but how do I find out the name of the font that \definefontfamily expects in the third argument? For example, \definefontfamily [dejavu] [serif] [DejaVu Serif] works fine

Re: [NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.09.2014 um 21:40 schrieb Joshua Krämer joshua.krae...@gmail.com: On 2014-09-01, 21:20, Sandra Snan wrote: This is probably a pretty basic question, but how do I find out the name of the font that \definefontfamily expects in the third argument? Hi Sandra, the only reliable

[NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-02 Thread Sandra Snan
This is probably a pretty basic question, but how do I find out the name of the font that \definefontfamily expects in the third argument? For example, \definefontfamily [dejavu] [serif] [DejaVu Serif] works fine and sets the text in DejaVu Serif, but that’s not a name I can find with mtxrun

Re: [NTG-context] the new simplefonts stuff

2014-09-02 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 09/01/2014 09:20 PM, Sandra Snan wrote: [...] PS Extra thanks if there’s a way to get ligatures and protrusion to work for it. Hi Sandra, I’m afraid I cannot help you with font names, since I use system fonts. But standard ligatures an protrusion work with these commands: