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From: Bill McClain <wmcclain@salamander.com>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: font tryout
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:53:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604135339.761c057b.wmcclain@salamander.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020604162021.GA9121@cordelia>

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:20:21 +0100
John Devereux <jd@plastech-controls.com> wrote:

> Also, what is the a direct way to specify a font, (by filename?),
> without using all the Context font infrastructure which I do not
> understand yet.
> 
> For example,
> 
> ..
> \usethisfontrightnow[utmr8a]
> Stuff in Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular

You should be able to do:

\font\testfont=utmr8a
\testfont Stuff in Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular

This is a good way to test that the map file is defined correctly and
that you have all the font files required.

I have more examples of font defintion in ConTeXt at:

    http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html

-Bill
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-04 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-01 10:24 Kris Hermans
2002-06-02  7:59 ` Nigel King
2002-06-02 12:56   ` Ville Voipio
2002-06-03 13:26     ` Kris Hermans
2002-06-03 13:43       ` Hans Hagen
2002-06-03 21:02         ` Jonathan Beach
2002-06-04  5:26         ` Kris Hermans
2002-06-04 16:20         ` John Devereux
2002-06-04 18:53           ` Bill McClain [this message]
2002-06-05 22:04           ` Hans Hagen

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