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On Saturday 23 February 2002 00:01, Daniel Joyce wrote:
> On Friday 22 February 2002 02:39 pm, you wrote:
> > Henry Ford said yo could have a car in any color so long as it
> > was black.
> >
> > Context says you can ask for any font you want to so long as it
> > is Computer Modern.
> >
> > I tried asking for lbr (Lucida Bright) as the \setupbody font.
> > The program went into a tailspin trying and failing to create
> > all the fonts. Then I used ppl as the asked for font. Another
> > tailspin, which is funny because I use Palatino in
> > plain TeX files with no problem. If I ask for just pl it does
> > not complain but just gives me computer modern.
>
>  Lucida Bright is a commercial font, you have to buy it to use it.
> Tex comes with the mappings set up, but not the font itself.
> Depending on which families you want, it could total several
> hundred dollars... ;)
>
> Other than that, you need to check for the fonts and their mappings
> in the TEX distro you are using.

Thanks for the information. That explains Lucida Bright. Now, how do
I use a font known to be on my system such as Palatino? For test 
purposes
I added the following line:
\font\rm= pplr at 35pt    

Now I have a very big version of Palatino which is accessable
via \rm. 

 But when I use:
\setupbodyfont[ppl]   
The system goes into a big tailspin looking for all the variations of
Palatino and finding none. I get messages like:
mktextfm `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag=:1; nonstopmode; input Palatino' 
failed.

It then creates a missfont.log series with messages like
mktextfm  Palatino   
This command does not work on my system. In addition
mktextfm makes tfm files and I have a full set of tfm, vf etc.
files for Palatino already, with the prefix ppl. 

Since the method in the Context manual does not work I tried 
the method found on the web page:

http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html

There is good news and bad news. The undocumented typescript
setup he prescribes there will allow me to use e.g., Charter fonts.
However the 
texexec foo.tex 
command still yields many font related error messages of the forms:

pdftex         : needs map file: 8r-bh-lucida.map

...and

) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) 
(.././type-charter.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-buy.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \processcommalist [\typescriptencoding

-itc-officina]\noexpand \d...
...

SO:
If I use an undocumented procedure and bypass all the error messages
I can use another font. 

OR:
I can use the familiar \font command, but I lose (apparently) all the
fancy font enlargement features of Context. 

Maybe I'd best leave Context alone until the dust settles a little 
bit. 

Thanks to all who tried to help.

John Culleton