From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16246 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Siep Kroonenberg Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: How to use PostScript font Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:56:15 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040824095615.GA3358@muisje> References: <672d10671a77.671a77672d10@tampabay.rr.com> <41245FD7.8060509@wxs.nl> <4125AE5D.5050700@wxs.nl> <41261E2E.3000900@wxs.nl> <41292B8E.6080108@wxs.nl> Reply-To: Siep Kroonenberg , mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093341548 23547 80.91.224.253 (24 Aug 2004 09:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 24 11:58:58 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BzY4w-0002PT-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:58:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F7A1276C; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:58:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13959-02; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:58:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBF01276F; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:57:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8841C1276F for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:57:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07368-06 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:57:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from dep.oprit.rug.nl (unknown [129.125.36.9]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A4E1276C for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:57:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from client44-3.kabelA.oprit.rug.nl (GN-HE001-COM03-200-159.kabela.oprit.rug.nl [129.125.200.159]) by dep.oprit.rug.nl (8.12.10.Beta2/8.12.10.Beta2) with SMTP id i7O9v9S1002738; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:57:09 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by client44-3.kabelA.oprit.rug.nl (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:56:15 +0200 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41292B8E.6080108@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16246 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16246 On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:26:06AM +0200, Hans Hagen Outside wrote: > > > ok; btw, also take a look at sieps afm2pl since it has some other nice > features > Hans My belated three cents on some of the things which were discussed in this thread: As to texnansi: this is supported in Latex by texnansi.sty. For Western European languages, it seems to cover pretty much everything, so there is no need for text companion fonts or virtual fonts. Basic support (without artificial smallcaps) for a font family with non-virtual texnansi fonts consists of just four tfms, a mapfile fragment and, for Latex, an fd file. As to fontinst: doing it the easy way, using just the latinfamily command, you get dozens of files, in 8R, T1, OT1 and TS1 encoding. You have to be pretty expert if you want more fine-grained control and a more economical set of support files. I don't even know whether Fontinst can generate non-virtual texnansi fonts which are suitable for regular typesetting. Besides, I believe that nowadays fontinst depends on Latex. Sorry about just mentioning Latex here: I am only an occasional Context user, and don't use typescripts or texfont at all. As to afm2pl: the latest version available from tex.aanhet.net is 0.6; later versions are written to be part of TeX Live 2004 which is currently under development. Because of changes in the TDS, these may not work correctly in an older TeX installation. Version 0.7.02 with afm2tfm compatibility is not yet in the TeX Live source tree, last time I checked. -- Siep Kroonenberg