>>Two things I often need are a (fake) caps font and (now) cmtt (e.g.,
>>instead of Courier). I can enable a caps font generated using fontutil by
>>redefining a few things right in my files, but I don't seem to be able to
>>make such tweaks work via a typescript file. The examples in the manuals
>>show how to add new fonts, but aren't as clear about what is needed when
>>you only want to make a small change to one of the predefined fonts. Now
>>that I have two things to tweak it makes more sense to create a new
>>typescript.
HH> in many cases you only need to remap a filename
HH> i think that it's worth looking into the caps and use cap fonts instead of
HH> scaled ones; it's more robust to have caps in the lowercase slots than to
HH> uppercase a string.
To use Times, Courier and Helvetica in their small caps variants I
have:
=== BEGIN SNIPPET ===
%D Let's define the Small Caps variant -- Berry names only, sorry.
%D And no variant available for 8R encoding.
%D Bold Caps is not used by ConTeXt (?)
% Times Roman (URW)
\starttypescript [serif] [times] [default]
\definefontsynonym [Times-Roman-Caps] [ptmrc7t] [encoding=default]
\definefontsynonym [Times-Bold-Caps] [ptmbc7t] [encoding=default]
\stoptypescript
% \starttypescript [serif] [times] [8r]
% \definefontsynonym [Times-Roman-Caps] [ptmrc] [encoding=8r]
% \definefontsynonym [Times-Bold-Caps] [ptmbc] [encoding=8r]
% \stoptypescript
\starttypescript [serif] [times] [ec]
\definefontsynonym [Times-Roman-Caps] [ptmrc8t] [encoding=ec]
\definefontsynonym [Times-Bold-Caps] [ptmbc8t] [encoding=ec]
\stoptypescript
% Courier (URW)
\starttypescript [mono] [courier] [default]
\definefontsynonym [Courier-Caps] [pcrrc7t] [encoding=default]
\definefontsynonym [Courier-Bold-Caps] [pcrbc7t] [encoding=default]
\stoptypescript
% \starttypescript [mono] [courier] [8r]
% \definefontsynonym [Courier-Caps] [pcrrc] [encoding=8r]
% \definefontsynonym [Courier-Bold-Caps] [pcrbc] [encoding=8r]
% \stoptypescript
\starttypescript [mono] [courier] [ec]
\definefontsynonym [Courier-Caps] [pcrrc8t] [encoding=ec]
\definefontsynonym [Courier-Bold-Caps] [pcrbc8t] [encoding=ec]
\stoptypescript
% Helvetica (URW)
\starttypescript [sans] [helvetica] [default]
\definefontsynonym [Helvetica-Caps] [phvrc7t] [encoding=default]
\definefontsynonym [Helvetica-Bold-Caps] [phvbc7t] [encoding=default]
\stoptypescript
% \starttypescript [sans] [helvetica] [8r]
% \definefontsynonym [Helvetica-Caps] [phvrc] [encoding=8r]
% \definefontsynonym [Helvetica-Bold-Caps] [phvbc] [encoding=8r]
% \stoptypescript
\starttypescript [sans] [helvetica] [ec]
\definefontsynonym [Helvetica-Caps] [phvrc8t] [encoding=ec]
\definefontsynonym [Helvetica-Bold-Caps] [phvbc8t] [encoding=ec]
\stoptypescript
%D Let's activate them
\starttypescript [serif] [times] [name]
\definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Times-Roman-Caps]
\definefontsynonym [SerifBoldCaps] [Times-Bold-Caps]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript [sans] [helvetica] [name]
\definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [Helvetica-Caps]
\definefontsynonym [SansBoldCaps] [Helvetica-Bold-Caps]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript [mono] [courier] [name]
\definefontsynonym [MonoCaps] [Courier-Caps]
\definefontsynonym [MonoBoldCaps] [Courier-Bold-Caps]
\stoptypescript
=== END SNIPPET ===
