On 12/13/2022 9:15 AM, Matthew McCabe via ntg-context wrote:
Hi list,
I'm looking to import a font with medium and light weights (in this case
Roboto) and define font alternatives so one can quickly switch to light
text just as one would switch to bold text. There is a stackexchange
answer from Wolfgang
(https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/303648/context-font-weights
<https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/303648/context-font-weights>)
which details a solution to this problem for ConTeXt MkIV but despite my
best efforts I haven't been able to get things to work for me. There is
the Roboto typescript example on ConTeXt garden but it isn't exactly
what I'm looking for as for the document I'm making I would prefer to be
able to treat the font weights as alternatives rather than separate
families since I will be switching often.
take a look at type-imp-plex.mkiv (just remove the \s! in your case)
basically you define two typefaces: normal and light and then just
switch between these, as in:
at the top of your document you say
\usebodyfont[plex] % preloads
\usebodyfont[plex-light] % preloads
\setupbodyfont[plex] % enables main font
and after that
{\switchtobodyfont[plex-light] .... }
will do a consistent switch
Hans
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