Concrete outline fonts

Concrete outline fonts

[Adam T. Lindsay]

Hi folks.

This is what happens when you're fighting insomnia in a foreign land. I
started investigating the TeXLive tree, and came up with at least a
partial solution to something that keeps getting asked about here.

Mark Ainsworth said this at Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:48:55 +0100:

>On another track, is there any way of getting pdftex to use the pfb concrete
>fonts, rather than the bitmap versions without a major hack of my map files?
>Has someone written a simple little routine to do the patching
>automatically. They print out ok, but the on-screen versions are really
>naff.

The computer concrete fonts *do* exist in a type1 version, albeit only in
pl0 encoding. They probably only get installed when you choose the polish
language/fonts package in TeXLive. CTAN appears to have these files at:
<http://www.ctan.org/getfile/?filename=language/polish/cc-pl.zip&action=/
tools/filesearch>

Anyway, by creating some simple font synonyms to fonts already referred
to by ConTeXt's built-in typescript, you can access the fonts fairly easily:

%% use the Polish cc-pl type1 files that come with TeXLive7
\definefontsynonym [ccr10]   [pcr10]   [encoding=pl0] 
\definefontsynonym [ccti10]  [pcti10]  [encoding=pl0] 
\definefontsynonym [ccsl10]  [pcsl10]  [encoding=pl0] 
\definefontsynonym [cccsc10] [pccsc10] [encoding=pl0] 
\setupbodyfont[con] 

\starttext
\input knuth
\showaccents
\stoptext

In addition, if you install the type-eul.zip files, you can use the fonts
with euler math, as well:

% http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/EulerContext.zip
% replace \setupbodyfont[con] with
\usetypescriptfile[type-eul] 
\setupbodyfont[con,eul] 

Hope someone finds that interesting.

adam
[I sent this to the list whilst travelling from an alternate email
account. I guess it didn't get seen b/c of all the email viruses flying
around.]
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