Re: Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:25 PM, John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 19 July 2008 06:03:43 am Alan Stone wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Charles P. Schaum
>> <verbo.solo@sbcglobal.net>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > With Ubuntu and fonts there are several things going on.
>>
>> Which begets the question...
>>
>> Regarding font installation, detection and other (non font related)
>> issues which occur recurrently when working with (Con)TeX(t), which
>> GNU/Linux distribution(s) is(/are) most user-friendly ?
>>
>> Alan
>
> I just avoid font miseries by relying mostly on the \font primitive.
> The complexities of creating and using typescripts etc. take too much
> time and too much head scratching. I do use the Texfont utility to
> create the necessary font bits and pieces when I buy a new type 1
> font.

Typescript for XeTeX and LuaTeX are written in a few minutes and you
can use all font switches you can't use if you define them with \font.

>  All the aliases etc. in Context don't help me much. I simply define
> the needed fonts in the sizes I will use. If I need another size I
> just copy the \font statement, change the font name and change the
> size parameter.   For nimbus bold condensed I end up with fonts named
> numbux nimbuy nimbua etc.
>
> This is of course not the Context way, but it saves me time and grief.
>
> I depend on texlive in my Slackware 12.1 distro.   Slack  comes with
> tetex but AFAIK that is no longer updated.  Therefore I don't bother
> to include it when building Slack. I install texlive from the cdr and
> then modify /etc/profile by adding
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux:
> to the PATH= string.
> Thus far the versions of Context (mkii) and pdftex etc. found on
> texlive have been stable and reliable.

Wolfgang
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