Old: A Beginner's Guide to Using Fonts in Mark IV
This page tries to describe how to use different typescripts with ConTeXt MkIV. It does not explain how this works; for this, consult new manual chapter on fonts or documents cited in Fonts. (These things are not easy. You have been warned!)
Note that this page is in preparation---these things are difficult and I don't understand them fully. Some of the fonts mentioned below don't work for me; I hope to clear this soon.
I assume here that we have a working ConTeXt Mark IV installation, for example ConTeXt Minimals. In particular, we have LM fonts, the TeX Gyre collection and some other ones.
Available typescripts
- Latin Modern (the default)
- Postscript (typescript name:
postscript
; Termes for serif, Heros for sans, Cursor for mono) - Antykwa Toruńska (ts name:
antykwa-torunska
; only serif) (didn't work for me!) - Iwona (ts name:
iwona
; only sans serif) - Iwona Light, Medium and Heavy (ts names:
iwona-light
,iwona-medium
,iwona-heavy
; only sans; the medium variant is a small bit heavier than a "regular" one) - Concrete (ts name:
concrete
; only serif) (didn't work for me!) - Kurier (ts name:
kurier
) (didn't work for me!) - Antykwa Półtawskiego (didn't work for me!)
- Pagella (ts name:
palatino
; only serif) - Termes (ts name:
times
; only serif, turns Heros as sans) - Heros (ts name:
helvetica
; only sans; needs\ss
to be turned on) - Bonum (ts name:
bookman
; only serif) (didn't work for me!) - Schola (ts name:
schoolbook
) (didn't work for me!) - Adventor (didn't work for me!)
- Cursor (ts name:
courier
; don't confuse with Kursor!) (didn't work for me!) - Chorus (ts name:
chancery
) (didn't work for me!)
Usage example
\usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,18pt] \starttext Hello world, I'm Pagella! \stoptext
The first line loads the file type-otf.tex with necessary definitions. The second one seems to order ConTeXt to "install" the given typescript (it accepts what I have earlier called a "typescript name"). The last one starts using it (you may omit the size if you are satisfied with the default).