From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7987 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: PostScript font access problem Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:19:09 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200205231319.09536.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <200205231033.MAA07496@bar.loria.fr> <20020523171301.D11564@bar.loria.fr> <008f01c20272$efb77460$0400a8c0@arnhem.chello.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398424 23914 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:40:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "Frans Goddijn" , "NTG-ConTeXt mailing list" In-Reply-To: <008f01c20272$efb77460$0400a8c0@arnhem.chello.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7987 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7987 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 __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com