Re: PostScript font access problem

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Thursday 23 May 2002 11:59 am, Frans Goddijn wrote:
> I tried your new example and indeed I get into a loop of "TFM file not
> found" for "ptrmsl" errors. Maybe some typo somewhere is the cause but I
> don't understand these font things *at all* so I'll just have to leave it
> at that...
>
> But I'm glad that you (partly) figured out how to fix it at your end!
>
> Best regards, Frans
>
> > It seems not many people are trying PostScript fonts with Karl Berry's

As an old plain texer I decided early on that the Context font scheme was 
too complex and too fussy for my taste. In fact I never got it to work. So
I call for fonts explicity like the following:

\definebodyfont[10pt,12pt,14pt,16pt][rm][tf=pncr8r sa 1,
 bf=pncb8r sa 1, it=pncri8r sa 1, sl=pncro8r sa 1, bs=pncbo8r sa 1,
bi=pncbi8r sa 1]

This is probably wrong, or at least not socially acceptable, 
but it works for me :-)

And for headlines etc. I just use the old plain tex formula, like

\font\bigf = cmssbx10 at 60pt

The idea that I have to fool with a script just to include a font seems 
a bit excessive to me. YMMV of course.

-- 
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters 
http://wexfordpress.com

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