From: "Lei Wang" <wanglei@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Chinese - font utilities
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 23:16:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001a01c2822f$03cb8ae0$04c7fea9@wang> (raw)
> [While the mailing list archive is down I can't search for previous answers
> to this, so apologies if this is asked and answered already.]
>
> I'd like to use the Chinese setting facility in ConTeXt, and am going
> through the instructions given in the "Chinese in ConTeXt" manual. I'm
> finding it very tough to locate the utilites needed to prepare the fonts.
the fontutil can be download from
http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn/homepage/015450/prog.html
there are windows/linux/solaris version and the name is gbkfonts now.
I think you can read this chinese web page.
> In particular, I've been looking for 'chpfb' or 'gbpfb', which will enable
> me to convert a TrueType font into several Type 1 fonts and corresponding
> tfms, or the 'gbenc' shellscript which will enable me to create the
> necessary tfms and encodings to use the ttf directly.
>
> Unfortunately they are proving very difficult to track down in the locations
> pointed to by the manual, which presumably are now out of date.
>
> I have access to both Windows and Linux platforms to run these on, so if
> anyone can point me at a place where I can now get them I'd be very
> grateful. Even better, if someone actually has a working Chinese set-up, a
> few pointers as to how you got there would be brilliant!
there are a simple setup for chinese in context here:
http://bbs.ctex.org/cgi-bin/topic.cgi?forum=8&topic=28&show=90
also a chinese page.
Wang
next reply other threads:[~2002-11-02 5:16 UTC|newest]
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2002-11-02 5:16 Lei Wang [this message]
2002-11-04 15:38 ` Duncan Hothersall
2002-11-04 16:32 ` Lei Wang
2002-11-05 14:45 ` Duncan Hothersall
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2002-11-01 17:00 Duncan Hothersall
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