[NTG-context] lucida ot

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 13.04.2012 um 19:12 schrieb Mari Voipio:

> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 00:25, Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> Just copy the *.otf files to for instance a directory
>>  <yourtexroot>/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts/opentype/data/lucidaot
>> 
>> and then run
>>  mtxrun --generate
>> 
>> after that
>>  \setupbodyfont[lucidaot]
>> should work.
> 
> It does! I had a prolonged fight with my Mac about using an up-to-date
> version of ConTeXt, but once I got that far, the rest wasn't that bad.
> 
> So the next "for dummies" question is:
> 
> If I do \ss or 'sans' in setupbodyfont, I get Lucida Sans - but how do
> I access Blackletter, Calligraphy and Handwriting?
> 
> A quick excursion into \cg and \hw didn't work out, I think I'm
> missing something here...
> 
> I'd have a real use for all of the three like about right now,
> recreating something from 15th and 17th century with 21st century
> technology, with output in both period style and in various more
> modern forms - ConTeXt should be the perfect tool for the job, if I
> can learn enough to make it work :-)

I attached a modified version of the typescript file where I added calligraphic and handwriting, blackletter is missing because there is no font command for the style.

\setupbodyfont[lucidanova]

\define[1]\LucidaTest
  {\begingroup
   #1\tf Regular \it Italic \sl Slanted \bf Bold \bi BoldItalic \bs BoldSlanted \tf fi fl VA \par
   \endgroup}

\starttext
\LucidaTest\rm
\LucidaTest\ss
\LucidaTest\tt
\LucidaTest\hw
\LucidaTest\cg
\stoptext

Wolfgang
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