Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-24 um 13:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Next exercise for me: creation of a new font collection! Could you suggest please, what fonts would fit nicely with garamond, for ss, tt and mm? I suggest palatino (mathpazo?) for math but this would be more a topic for Hraban, you could try

Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2008-04-24 um 13:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Next exercise for me: creation of a new font collection! Could you suggest please, what fonts would fit nicely with garamond, for ss, tt and mm? I suggest palatino (mathpazo?) for math but this would be more a topic

Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-26 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:06:22 -0600, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I generally like the LM mono more than any other typewriter font - it's not only a line font like Courier, is well readable, has several faces and looks really nice. Yes, but very poorly hinted :-( Idris --

[NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-24 Thread Peter Münster
Great, now it works! (with luatex-r1188 and context-beta) The typescript from Hans at the end of this message works fine. Some questions for my understanding: - Why 2 \starttypescript-\stoptypescript sections, and not 1? - What does \setups[font:fallback:serif] mean? - What is \definetypeface

Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Münster wrote: Great, now it works! (with luatex-r1188 and context-beta) The typescript from Hans at the end of this message works fine. Some questions for my understanding: - Why 2 \starttypescript-\stoptypescript sections, and not 1? taste and acess to verbose fontname - What

Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-24 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Apr 24 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: - What is the meaning of each parameter of \definetypeface? see mfonts.pdf There are examples, but I didn't find an explanation of the parameters. If I understand right, theses are synonyms: rm - serif ss - sans tt - mono mm - math I'm trying to

Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-24 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Apr 24 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \starttypescipt [mytypeface] \definetypeface [mytypeface] [ss] [sans] [...] [default] \stoptypescript I try to ask better questions: - The first argument to \definetypeface is the name of the typeface, right? - Why do I need the second *and* the

Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 24 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \starttypescipt [mytypeface] \definetypeface [mytypeface] [ss] [sans] [...] [default] \stoptypescript I try to ask better questions: - The first argument to

Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: AFAIK they are the command to switch from one style to another one, e.g. \rm, \ss but I wondered myself about this. not really, since we also have hw (handwritten) and cg (calligraphy) anyhow, sometimes i do map the ss to a serif or rm to sans; depends on how mixed

Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: AFAIK they are the command to switch from one style to another one, e.g. \rm, \ss but I wondered myself about this. not really, since we also have hw (handwritten) and cg (calligraphy) I know

Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: AFAIK they are the command to switch from one style to another one, e.g. \rm, \ss but I wondered myself about this. not really, since we also have hw (handwritten) and cg