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From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew@sil.org>
Subject: Re: Bitstream Charter vs. Charis SIL
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 08:59:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0806082359q1a921d19y812419181aa6567f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00806070234j777520f4nc2343a82f3c7a2d9@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex)
>>> ! Font \*map7ptrmscss*:=CharterBT-SmallCap at 6.64998pt not loadable:
>>> Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found.
>>
>> That's because of
>>
>> \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman [name:CharterBT-Roman] % or: [bchr8a]
>> \definefontsynonym [Charter-Italic] [name:CharterBT-Italic] % or: [bchri8a]
>> \definefontsynonym [Charter-Bold] [name:CharterBT-Bold] % or: [bchb8a]
>> \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldItalic]  [name:CharterBT-BoldItalic] % or: [bchbi8a]
>> \definefontsynonym [Charter-Slanted] [name:CharterBT-Italic] % or: [bchri8a]
>> \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldSlanted] [name:CharterBT-BoldItalic] % or: [bchbi8a]
>> \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman-Caps]  [name:CharterBT-SmallCap] % or: [bchrc8a]

The last line should be removed, the Charter font on ctan has no
smallcaps and the
style is only commercial available

>> The fonts are on
>>     http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/charter/
>> and I can add them, but there is still one problem.
>>
>> Since fonts are defined this way, you would need to configure
>> fc-config to look for fonts in that directory in order to find the
>> font. Or one would need to change the definition.
>>
>> Hans - what would be the implications for LuaTeX if
>>    name:CharterBT-Roman
>> was changed into
>>    file:bchr8a
>> ? Not suggesting that yet, only asking.

There is no difference, the same fonts are loaded, I tried this a month ago.

> Now that I'm looking at it again at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Charter:
>
>> This has resulted in derivatives of Bitstream Charter becoming available, including Charis SIL.
>
> What about adding
>      http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont
> to the distribution, possibly including TeX Live, and replacing the
> definitions to use CharisSIL in XeTeX/LuaTeX instead of Bitstream
> Charter? The same move that has happened with TeX Gyre? Any comments?
> Suggestions?

The fonts include more characters but come without any kerning information.

Wolfgang
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-09  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-07  9:34 Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-07  9:51 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-06-09  6:59 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-06-09  7:04   ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-06-09  7:44     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-09  8:04   ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-09  8:24     ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-06-09  8:35       ` Hans Hagen

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