Re: s-mag-01

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Bruce D'Arcus said this at Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:34:08 -0500:

>
>On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 03:00  AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>>
>>> Also, IIRC, shouldn't the grey border surround the entire page, and 
>>> extend to the edge?  I am getting a thinner border in the shape of an 
>>> "L," with white space at the page edge.
>>
>> works ok here, puzzled

Bruce, did you try opening the file in Acrobat? It's based on a very nice
2-page spread layout, and the page structure is immediately apparent once
you see it that way.

>On this, the only thing I changed was to use a different font, since 
>palatino doesn't seem to work from ConTeXt in my new installation.

One word: texfont.
It took me a while to figure out how to actually use it on my MacOSX
(TeXLive) install, but it works very nicely, once you figure out a couple
stumbling blocks. I actually wrote a My Way tutorial on it, but it ended
up being a bit too cranky. Hans took it more as a bug report, and said
he'd work on some of the issues I brought up.

So I'm not sure whether I should release it as-is, or if I should wait
for texfont to change.

>I know this was discussed previously, but don't remember the bottomline 
>point.  Shouldn't these fonts that are included with teTeX and TeXLive 
>just work in ConTeXt, without needing any intervention by the user?  If 
>yes, whose responsibility is this?  Am using Gerben Wierda's OS X 
>installer, but have a feeling this isn't his problem.  Or maybe it is?

basically what I did was:
set teTeX = /usr/local/teTeX  # my tcsh setting of the root tex install

cd $teTeX    # wherever you have your root tetex directory
sudo chgrp -R admin texmf-local  # make your texlocal directory
sudo chmod -R g+w texmf-local    # group-writeable to facilititate changes

cd texmf/fonts   
        # copy the fonts into the local font directory for munging the names
cp -R afm tfm type1 vf ../../texmf-local/fonts/
cd ../../texmf-local/fonts/afm
mv bit bitstrea   # correct a TeXLive 7 naming bug
gunzip -r *       # I think these are shipped as gzipped files
sudo texhash

cd      # or to a safe home directory where temp files can be created
# next command is all one line:
texfont $teTeX/texmf/context/data/type-tmf.dat --en=texnansi
     --fontroot=$teTeX/texmf-local --install --makepath


it'll make a bunch of font charts in the form of .tex files. To run these
(and use the palatino fonts in s-mag) you ought to have
\autoloadmapfiletrue in your cont-sys.tex file.

I *think* that'll get you started. Good luck...

adam


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