From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8890 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jens-Uwe Morawski Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fonts: ConTeXt+MikTeX Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:42:51 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020731104251.6f62bd15.morawski@gmx.net> References: <200207302111.06402.angerweit@gmx.net> 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 1035399259 31263 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:54:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXt In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8890 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8890 On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:48:28 +0200 Axel Rose 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