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Expanded note at top, and clarified about bold weight.
{{note | The contents of this page are OLD, from before ConTeXt MKIV. It might need a bit of updating... The easier route than what's on this page is to install the [http://tug.org/gentium/ gentium-tug package]. In TeX Live on Linux, type <tt>sudo /usr/local/bin/tlmgr install gentium-tug</tt>}}
== Background ==
I wanted to install the very fine Gentium font to my computer. The font is a free font with a very wide collection of latin Latin and greek Greek glyphs (cyrillic Cyrillic to come later). It can be downloaded from the SIL home web page: http://wwwscripts.sil.org/ cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium.
While the font system is rather elegant and can be tweaked every possible way, it is difficult to get started with. For a beginner, new fonts may feel extremely difficult to install.
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One important thing to note is that '''there aren't Gentium Bold or Bold Italic flavours ''' available, yetfor Gentium Plus. So, "to regularly go where no man has gone before". But bold Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic do include bold and bold italic.
Of course, you can (and probably should) put the typescript definitions into another file so that they can be reused in other documents. For more information on using typescripts, Wiki around! My suggestion is to start with the [http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html Bill McClain's ConTeXt beginners page] and then check the [[TypeScripts]] page. Note that the font names on the latter are slightly different from the ones on this page even though the font is the same.
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