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).