From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/659 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: LaTeX's T1 encoding / LaTeX PS fonts Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 14:51:55 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <14224.31851.720000.122268@PC709> References: <199907161426.QAA29283@dep.eco.rug.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391508 25951 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:45:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:45:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <378FC6CF.8270E083@wxs.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:659 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:659 >>>>> "HH" == Hans Hagen writes: HH> Erik Frambach wrote: >> Until now always had problems with Times: first ConTeXt seems to >> insist on using tir.tfm, etc., then I get problems with either >> missing accents or funny HH> Hm. One can use filemapping to use other names, so it is under HH> your control. Currently the method is: ... The important thing about this patch is/was the enco-ec.tex file. After Hans & I have sorted out a few minor glitches, it will move into the core distrib. Perhaps we should do one for (each of the) (silly, because they are all slighly different from eachother) 7-bit tex text encodings as well, getting rid of the hardcoded plain stuff alltogether >> But never everything correct at the same time. HH> This is an encoding issue and related to the previous. We use HH> times a lot (tir files) and never had those problems, but I think HH> your problem could have been due to missing texnansi tfm HH> files. Taco once suggested to set up an archive for this (if only Probably caused by the fact that there were other,older versions of tir.tfm that were not re-encoded at all but 'raw': using AdobeStandardEncoding, which is nearly useless for typesetting. HH> because texnansi is a rather good encoding). One reason for HH> using the tir ones is (was) that I dislike those (sometimes even) HH> changing berry names, and prefer originals. It's also the reason HH> why I have my own mapping files (taco, should we also provide a HH> map file?). Not for this berry stuff, that is part of any standard tex distrib. And since you & me are probably the only people that use and have the texnansi tfms, I don't see a real reason yet. If and when we create a distribution for texnansi tfms, we definately should. But I am not in a hurry to do that... >> Maybe I'm stupid, but anyway I for one am VERY happy to see that >> this new method actually WORKS for me. HH> Good to hear that! HH> Since the names in font-ber change now, we must make sure we make HH> the right choices once and for all (that is: taco makes the HH> choices -). This is why I asked for the names for the other fonts. At least the base35 (but preferably all of the PS3 ones) should be in there and correctly named. But I no longer have those files (trying to cut down hd space), so I depend on other people to tell me what they are called (the proper psnfss name for the 8t encoded version, that is). HH> Some time ago I got some baskerville fonts needed to HH> typeset some UKTUG stuff, and ended up with 5 subdir with 5 sets HH> of tfm files and I never could sort out which one to use, HH> especially because the names in the map files were yet another HH> set. Isnt life fun? Taco