At 11:56 AM 1/24/2002 +0100, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
>What means/does [name] here?
>
>When i declare a [serif] typescript, why i need:
>\definefontsynonym [Serif] [Palatino]
name identifier this script as mapping a name onto a style; the
\definetypeface macro uses this to identify what it should load (it looks
for name, size and map scripts
>In my opinion this is redundant.
it depends, you may indeed skip that one but then you cannot write style
files using the more symbolic Serif instead of Palatino; I tend to write
styles independent of the font
Or the same question from another point of view: When the font-commands
>use or look for Serif, SerifBold ... why the typescript must be declared
>as [serif]?
you can name it anything you want, this 'serif' is used to locate the
script with \definetypeface,
\starttypescript [fancyshape] ....
combined with
\definetypeface [..] [..] [fancyshape]
would work as well.
>or what would mean a [sans] typescript with the same
> \definefontsynonym [Serif...] [...] definitions?
you can do that but it does not make sense, however, some font shapes have
alternatives, think of
[lightserif]
so, you can organize your fonts (univers has for instance many
alternatives) accordingly and map 'm onto different typefaces,
\definetypeface [normal] [rm] [serif] ....
\definetypeface [light] [rm] [lightserif] ....
> > The next thing is using this font. Of course you can execute typescripts
> > yourself but best is to use the command
> >
> > \definetypeface [myface] [rm] [serif] [adobepalatino] [default]
> [encoding=ec]
>
>Here again. As far as i understand the font-switching-macros use the
>declarations
>like Serif, or SerifBold. In this case: why i have to declared it as [rm] too?
actually the chain is:
rmtf <- Serif <- Palatino <- fontname.tfm
rmbf <- SerifBold <- PalatinoBold <- boldfontname.tfm
so, rmtf, rmbf etc are the internal names ; the rm/ss/tt/hw/cf etc make up
a (traditional) collection of familied (in terms of tex) fonts. If you skip
the typescript altogether, you can use \definefont to set these, like
\definefont [rm] [10pt] [tf=fontname sa 1, bf=boldfontname sa 1]
>Or, why i need 'rm' in the next declaration? 'myface' is already defined
>as 'rm'
> >
> > \setupbodyfont[myface,10pt,rm]
> >
within a typeface there can be rm,ss,etc and the default is the one defined
first. Here indeed the rm could be omited, but it does not hurt either.
>Hmm, many questions, which show that i understand nothing ;)
>
>And another question: fontinst generates some fonts including
>symbols like degree. upright-mu or the registered-symbol. These
>are in (LaTeX) TS1 encoding. What declarations are needed to use them?
you can define them as symbols
\definesymbol [registered] [\getglyph{Serif}{\char123}] % or
{Palatino}{\char123} or {fontname}{\char123} or take your choice
these will scale with the current font size. The problem with these symbols
is that because they are not always present in a font, we cannot add them
to encoding vectors.
Hans
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