From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11367 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maarten Sneep Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fonts again in ConTeXt Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:04:57 +0100 Organization: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <03031214045703.11186@mondriaan> References: <9292DECE-53D3-11D7-93AD-0050E4258255@fastmail.fm> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047474428 6455 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2003 13:07:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Mar 12 14:07:07 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18t5wp-0001fy-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:07:07 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCF510B7E; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:07:48 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from nat.vu.nl (hardy.nat.vu.nl [130.37.32.3]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA4D10AF9 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:05:22 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mondriaan (dyn34-207 [130.37.34.207]) by nat.vu.nl (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with SMTP id h2CD5L702274 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:05:21 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] In-Reply-To: <9292DECE-53D3-11D7-93AD-0050E4258255@fastmail.fm> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11367 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11367 On Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:10, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > Yes and no... ConTeXt is looking for fonts with names that are totally > > unusual compared to the ordinary TeX (LaTeX) System. Most TeX systems > > (and I guess GW TeX as well) support psnfss, the postscript font > > system to be used with latex. That means, that you should have fonts > > named in a cryptic way "pplr8r.tfm" or such. ConTeXt on the other hand > > looks for fontnames like "8r-uplr8a.tfm". Almost no one has a font > > named like this on their system. > > This kind of thing is just silly. The above named file is no more > clearly named than the psnfss version, so what's the point? It is clearer: the first bit gives the encoding and the latter bit is the name of the file containign the glyphs (uplr8a.pfb). OTOH since LaTeX already creates a lot of font-mess, I do agree that there is no need to add more to the trouble already there. I would like to see a few sym-links (does Windows have something like that?) to add a few names to the tree to make sure everything works as planned. Since texfont uses afm2tfm directly (and the tfm files that come with psnfss are hand tuned) I don't think that using texfont blindly is a very good idea. It would be better to use the existing tfm files. The dvips documentation on aft2tfm lists what's been added to the tfm's in the psnfss collection, I cannot recall this right now. Cheers, Maarten Sneep