Re: Installing Truetype fonts in context.

["John R. Culleton" <john@wexfordpress.com>]

Thanks to all who assisted earlier in the thread.

Let me start with a clean sheet of paper. My environment is
Slackware Linux, which puts TeX in /usr/share/. However I have
updated the ttf2afm program by copying the newer version from
TeXLive as previously discussed.  Here are my two font install
scripts. The first is for a pfb file not accompanied by an afm
file. The second is for a ttf file. They both seem to work for
me, given my environment. Both require that the font be put in a
subdirectory by itself to start with. Both require that the font
be assigned an unique name. Both require that updmap.cfg be
modified initially to include a file called plus.map.

 Both are called with

 <command> vendorname fontname.

  Comments/criticisms appreciated. Are they candidates for the
contextgarden WIKI?
-----------------makefonts-----------------------------------

pf2afm *pfb
mkdir /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1
mkdir /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1/$2
cp * /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1/$2/
texfont --en=8r --ve=$1 --co=$2 --ma --in
cd /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/
cat *map >plus.map
mv plus.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap
updmap
texhash
-------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------makettls--------------------------------

ttf2afm *ttf
mkdir /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1
mkdir /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1/$2
cp * /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1/$2/
texfont --en=8r --ve=$1 --co=$2 --ma --in
cd /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/
sed {s/pfb/ttf/} *$2*
cat *map >plus.map
mv plus.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap
updmap
texhash
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John Culleton