From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30177 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texfont: installed font only works with pdftex Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:29:19 +0200 Message-ID: <17A212CB-DBED-4324-8BBD-3E65552AF72B@uni-bonn.de> References: <1154883237.1057.2.camel@g5.home> <2AC5B68D-6F43-4850-8854-180D7A5EBC06@uni-bonn.de> <44D73F36.5020107@wxs.nl> <44D845D3.4000307@wxs.nl> <44D851AC.90603@elvenkind.com> <44D9017B.7020600@elvenkind.com> <44D9061E.4070503@wxs.nl> <44D908C8.7040308@elvenkind.com> <44D9E9FF.1040206@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155133812 29308 80.91.229.2 (9 Aug 2006 14:30:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:30:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 09 16:30:09 2006 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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GAp4M-00046D-2u for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:30:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1627D1FE85; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:30:01 +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 04218-03; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:29:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E821FE66; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:29:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32EC61FE66 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:29:50 +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 05061-01 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:29:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailout08.sul.t-online.com (mailout08.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.20]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id BC10A1FE5A for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:29:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fwd34.aul.t-online.de by mailout08.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1GAp43-0004R4-08; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:29:43 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (VTPJeuZGoePu5sIm6YKLeT7DarlVtwQQHfBb0Dwg81p2SqdKYO5TQz@[84.172.121.204]) by fwd34.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1GAp40-13OtBg0; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:29:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <44D9E9FF.1040206@elvenkind.com> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-ID: VTPJeuZGoePu5sIm6YKLeT7DarlVtwQQHfBb0Dwg81p2SqdKYO5TQz@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 53037d66-f051-493e-9c45-a342748a3a20 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:30177 Archived-At: On Aug 9, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> I've experimented with afm2pl, and as I wrote in an earlier mail: the >> beginning of EC.enc with its additional LIGKERN instructions confuses >> it so it will not include default ligatures. > > As it turns out, this is the same for afm2tfm. And to make matters > even more confusing, I had the following problem: At one point, > I had copied EC.enc to the current directory and fixed it. However, > it still didn't work, because: > > [taco@glenlivet new]$ ls *.enc > EC.enc > > [taco@glenlivet new]$ kpsewhich --progname=dvips ec.enc > /opt/tex/teTeX/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/base/EC.enc > > because of a line in /opt/tex/teTeX/texmf/aliases :-/ > > > > Either way, it seems that this LIGKERN interpretation that > overrules the afm file is actually considered a feature. The > sane way out seems to be to ship our own encoding files in > > fonts/enc/texfont > > or so. > > Taco Yes, I have a dim recollection that afm2tfm has the same problem. Isn't lm-ec.enc the better choice anyway? Couldn't we make texfont default to lm-ec.enc when it is called with --en=EC? And for the LIGKERN: yes, I asked about them on the tex-fonts list a while ago, and nobody considered them a problem. IMHO, they're totally useless or even worse, but I received the same ol' answers: can't change that, it's legacy etc. I think Mojca knows something about this as well. So my suggestion would be: make ec a synonym for lm-ec in texfont (but then, because of one or to glyphnames, lm- ec.enc has to be in the mapfile as well). Thomas