From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44064 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Luatex fails to load a font Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:09:11 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0809170009p44635b3hb96ad27c793540c@mail.gmail.com> References: <6b36c7890809160410s6e237930q95236a3633db8c25@mail.gmail.com> <48CFA26D.1070109@elvenkind.com> <6b36c7890809160703k359d6ae6l647f7b6685df67a3@mail.gmail.com> <20080916142515.GV29367@phare.normalesup.org> <6b36c7890809161129k2ec37eb0r5a12700b585c6861@mail.gmail.com> <3DF8C593-9991-474C-866A-CE2380A50818@fiee.net> <6b36c7890809162357y520c0078ke92906e5741eda0e@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221635480 31475 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2008 07:11:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:11:20 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Sep 17 09:12:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KfrCy-0008Qs-4D for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:12:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43AB91FEB1; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:11:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16937-01-7; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:10:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274B91FE81; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:10:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 245F71FE81 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:10:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17019-02-3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:09:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.188]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68F31FB77 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:09:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l14so1460125gvf.1 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.103.239.5 with SMTP id q5mr1481459mur.58.1221635351113; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.103.215.10 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:09:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6b36c7890809162357y520c0078ke92906e5741eda0e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:44064 Archived-At: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:57 AM, holzminister wrote: > 2008/9/16 Henning Hraban Ramm : >> Am 2008-09-16 um 20:29 schrieb holzminister: > >> OpenType can internally use TrueType outlines or PostScript outlines >> (different algorithms). OpenType with PS outlines normally use >> the .otf extension; OpenType with TrueType outlines are valid TrueType >> fonts and therefore normally use the .ttf extension. But OpenType >> fonts are never valid PostScript fonts. >> >> By far not every TrueType font is OpenType compatible: OT-TT fonts >> have their characters encoded in Unicode and may use OT features; >> "normal" TT fonts often use default/custom one-byte encodings. > > Thanks for your explanation. > >> The ordering in the TeX tree is probably a matter of taste, but you >> would even more confused to find .ttf fonts within the "truetype" as >> well as "opentype" folders, for you can't know (without tools) what's >> really in the font's guts. And don't you think it would be >> questionable to draw a line between Unicode encoded TrueType fonts >> with and without OpenType features? > > OK, in some cases it makes sense to store them separated. But when I > download a font and don't know about its features, I first have to > analyse it to put it into the right folder. No, you don't have to do this. *.ttf -> fonts/truetype *.otf -> fonts/opentype You could also use them from your OS font directory (this is what I did). Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________