From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18825 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ciro A. Soto" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: newbie question about fonts Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:29:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20050311132901.18991.qmail@web80404.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: ciro@kavyata.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110547922 2835 80.91.229.2 (11 Mar 2005 13:32:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:32:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Mar 11 14:32:01 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9kEQ-0001Qi-TP for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:31:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B386127A1; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:31:44 +0100 (CET) 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 20148-02; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:31:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F361280B; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:29:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172BC1280B for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:29:34 +0100 (CET) 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 19883-07 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:29:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from web80404.mail.yahoo.com (web80404.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.79.59]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id CC1AD127A1 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:29:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [136.1.1.101] by web80404.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:29:01 PST Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: 6667 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: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18825 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18825 Thank you Patrick... I am my distributor maintainer. I installed linux in my pc box less than a year ago, and I see font files everywhere (X directory fonts, TeX directory fonts, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, etc...) but don't know if they are accessible from Context. what is the "local guide" you refer to? Wouldn't it be nice to have a command in Context like: \listavailablefonts [type1 | truetype | ... | all] or \listavailablefamilyfonts [] ... and another to check whether a font is properly installed (that is, whether it has \bf, \it, \sc, math, etc), like: \checkfont [fontname] Luigi, thank you. I've read the outdated documents you suggested, but still ... Ciro --- Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Hello Ciro, > > > Okay, this business of > fonts/files/names/encoding/etc > > is really difficult to understand for me. > > welcome to the club ;-) > > > I have a simple question. How do I list all fonts > > I have available to use in ConTeXt in the > > machine/system I have? Is there a file > > where I can see the names of all these fonts? > > This should be stated in your local guide. If not, > complain to the > distribution maintainer. > > > And is there a template file or a command > > to display the entire set of characters once I > know > > the > > name of fonts? > > \showfont[Serif] > > and alike. > > Patrick > -- > ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >