Re: How to use charter?

["Willi Egger" <w.egger@boede.nl>]

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Hi Alexander,


> I am trying to use the Bitstream Charter as a font. Unluckily,
> all the umlauts fail to appear. Here is how I do it:
>
> \definefont[bchr][bchr8t at 12pt]
> \starttext
> \bchr \"a \"o \"u \SS{}
> \stoptext

I am for sure no font guru. I would suggest you to install the charter fonts
with texfont.

What I have done in the last quarter of an hour:

Create a directory \texmf\fonts\source\bitstrea\charter
Copy the *.afm and *.pfb files to that directory.
Copy the attached file type-charter.dat to that directory (this is the
charter-section form type-tmf.dat provided by Hans).
Copy texnansi.enc from the dvips environment to that directory.

open a Dos box and run texfont --batch type-charter.dat

Add the map file to pdftex.cfg: map +texnansi-bitstrea-charter.map

Run the attached test file...

You do not have to elaborate a typescript file, because charter is builtin
in the typescripts provided with ConTeXt.


Success Willi

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# You can process this file as follows, using texfont.pl:
#
#   texfont --encoding=ec --batch texfont.dat
#   texfont --batch texfont.dat    if you have set the encoding as below
#
# where 'ec' can be replaced by 'texnansi', '8r' or otherwise.


# bit charter

--en=texnansi --ve=bitstrea --co=charter --so=auto
--en=texnansi --ve=bitstrea --co=charter --so=auto --ca=* bchr8a
--en=texnansi --ve=bitstrea --co=charter --so=auto --sl=* bchr8a
--en=texnansi --ve=bitstrea --co=charter --so=auto --sl=* bchb8a

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% Testfile for the Bitstream charter font collection
% W. Egger
% 16.07.03

\setupoutput[pdftex]

\definetypeface [Myfont] [rm] [serif] [charter] [default] [encoding=texnansi]

\setupbodyfont[Myfont,rm,12pt]

\startbuffer[Text]
    \input knuth
\stopbuffer

\starttext

\section{Charter Roman}

\getbuffer[Text]

\section{Charter Bold}

{\bf \getbuffer[Text]}

\section{Charter Bold-slanted (Built by texfont)}

{\bs \getbuffer[Text]}

\section{Charter Small Caps with \type{\sc}}

{\sc \getbuffer[Text]}

\stoptext