From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8124 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill McClain Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: font tryout Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:53:39 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020604135339.761c057b.wmcclain@salamander.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020603154226.02bbac80@server-1> <20020604162021.GA9121@cordelia> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398556 24950 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:42:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:42:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20020604162021.GA9121@cordelia> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8124 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8124 On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:20:21 +0100 John Devereux 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 -- Sattre Press The King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers info@sattre-press.com http://kiy.sattre-press.com/