From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3736 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Frans Goddijn" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: installing fonts... Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 07:46:39 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <003001c07875$c02ee760$a77c2ed5@arnhem.chello.nl> References: <01010700302702.05955@pc.jaywalk.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394457 19684 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:34:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "NTG-ConTeXt" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3736 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3736 When I wanted to use my own Times font (also bought at www.fontshop.nl) including so called "expert sets" with real small caps and old style numbers, it didn't take Taco very long to produce the necessary files (font-fg.tex for the bodyfont setup and an fg.map for mapping (whatever that may be) and .tfm files and maybe even some .vf files.) I still don't understand much about this font installing even though I looked at these files often. So I guess it depends on how much documentation you can find out there. If you find out more I'd be interested because it might be fun to buy another font sometime (and be able to actually use it ;-}} ) If I recall correctly Taco used some program (fontmonger?) to look into the font files to see if all characters were at the places TeX would expect them to be in and he did some resorting there. He remarked at the time that my Times fonts had all the extra characters (punctuation, dashes et cetera) that often are missing in other font files. I'd say: either have a field trip finding it all out, or try to contact Taco and be done with it ;-}}} Groet! Frans www.goddijn.com > Let's say I want to buy a font, the Quadraat Sans for example, a goodlooking > sans serif by Fred Smeijers (www.fontshop.com). > FontShop can provide those fonts in PostScript. How difficult is it, to use > fonts like these in ConTeXt?