Re: Fonts: ConTeXt+MikTeX

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:48:28 +0200
Axel Rose <rose@sj.com> wrote:

> Thank you Hraban for making things clearer.
> 
> though here:
> 
> > > \setupencoding[default=ec]
> >
> >this tells ConTeXt to use ec (alias 8a?) encoded fonts as default;

not 8a. 8a is Adobe standard encoding, the encoding of the AFMs.
8r is a (strange) raw encoding, used by fontinst to build on top
of them virtual fonts. ec (aka T1) is 8t encoding.

> >you can try texnansi, 8r or some east european encs, if some special
> >chars (accented) doesn't show up.
> 
> I'd like to get more information about which encoding to use when.
> Anybody?

TeX uses TFMs in order to access a font. The encoding of these TFMs
you have to know, since it depends on your font installation. IMO
there are only 2 useful encodings: ec (aka T1 aka 8t) and texnansi.
texnansi (aka LY1) is employed by texfont.pl. Thus i would call it the
ConTeXt default/prefered encoding. But ec and texnansi are not that
different. I see no advantage to prefer one of them.

I personally prefer ec, but that is not an encoding but more a
time issue. When i install fonts i often have to install it for
ConTeXt and LaTeX as well. With fontinst i get very easily
the LaTeX set-up. Then the  only thing to do for ConTeXt is writing
a typescript.

jm2c

Jens