From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12350 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill McClain Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Metafont and Context Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 08:49:17 -0500 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20030522084917.533c272c.wmcclain@salamander.com> References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053611584 26375 80.91.224.249 (22 May 2003 13:53:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu May 22 15:53:01 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IqUA-0006kp-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:51:58 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B832010B13; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:53:47 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from hall.mail.mindspring.net (hall.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.60]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA22C10ACE for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:49:00 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from pmdeco1-63.rconnect.com ([209.163.54.63] helo=atipa.local) by hall.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19IqRB-0004hf-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from atipa.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atipa.local (8.12.6/8.12.6/SuSE Linux 0.6) with SMTP id h4MDnH31002917 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 08:49:17 -0500 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12350 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12350 On Thu, 22 May 2003 01:05:56 +0200 "Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" wrote: > Some questions about the typescript: We've reached the limits of my knowledge. I'll have to dig deeper before I can be of any help. There is quite a bit I don't yet understand about fonts in tex and Context. > > \starttypescript [serif] [duerer] > ^ no [name] her? In other examples an encoding goes here, but it is just a key for finding the typescript. This example works without specifying an encoding. > > \starttypescript [Duerer] > > \definetypeface [Duerer] [rm] [serif] [duerer] [default] > ^ > what is this 5th parameter for? I have to set this to the fontname? It identifies the typescript for the size information. The typescript to be found is [#3][#5][default], which in this case is [serif][default][size]. There is a match for this in type-siz.tex. Note: this is how I have explained it on my help page, but I am not sure it is correct. I've not been able to substitute other size typescripts, so I must be missing something. I don't undestand \definebodyfont or the size mechanism at all. > Why is there no section [size] needed? What are the defaults? As above, the default size is [serif][default][size] in type-siz.tex (I think). > What about encoding? For example, an OT1 font doesn't contains german > umlauts, a T1 font does. I'm puzzled in this case. A tfm is generated for a specific encoding. Multiple encodings for the same font would require multiple tfm's. Looking at one of my type1 fonts, I see the encoding I used when installing it: tftopl texnansi-sar.tfm | grep CODINGSCHEME (CODINGSCHEME TEXNANSIENCODING) This makes sense, because I used texnansi.enc when installing. But when I look at Metafont Duerer: tftopl cdr10.tfm | grep CODINGSCHEME (CODINGSCHEME ASCII CAPS AND DIGITS) What encoding is that, and how would I create a tfm with a different encoding? > By the way, there is also a typescript-section [special]. What can I > do with this? I don't know; there are a few examples dealing with math mode in type-spe.tex. > I will report about my attempts about my font 'bunt' in a second mail. I've never dealt with multiple design sizes (and don't understand single design sizes yet). If you will send me your "bunt" font files I'll use them for testing, although it may take some time before I can get to it. -Bill -- Sattre Press Curiosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/ by Garrett Serviss info@sattre-press.com http://csky.sattre-press.com/