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Command/definetypeface (view source)
Revision as of 20:43, 25 September 2013
, 20:43, 25 September 2013Made definition of 1st and 2nd arguments more explicit.
== Description ==
{{cmd|definetypeface}} sets up a typeface for use within a typescript. This typeface links a style (rm, ss, etc.) to an actual font family (or font set). The first argument specifies the typescript of which the newly defined typeface will be a part. The second argument tells which style to define a typeface for.
The third and fourth arguments to \definetypeface are pointers to already declared font sets;
ternally remapped to one of the two-letter internal styles. Inside \definetypeface, they are
nothing more than convenience names that are attached to a group of fonts by the person that
wrote the font definition. They only reflect reflect a grouping that the person believed that could be
a single font style. Oftentimes, these names are identical to the official style keywords, just as
the typescript and typeface names are often the same, but there can be (and sometimes are)
different names altogether.
How to define define your own font sets is explained in the reference manual, but there are quite afew predefined predefined font sets that come with ConTEXt; these are all listed in the four [[ConTeXt_reference_manual|tables 5.9, 5.10,
5.11, and 5.12]].
For everything to work properly in MkII, the predefined font sets also have to have an encoding
