Re: Re: Confusion with font instructions

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Patrick Gundlach said this at Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:54:06 +0200:

>Hello David,
>
>> I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal.
>
>This questions can also come from more experienced users :)
>
>> Which set of instructions should I follow, in order to allow use of
>> Palatino or Times, on Mac OS X, Gerben Wierda's TeX distribution, latest
>> ConTeXt installed? 
>
>OK, do you have LaTeX working? Then you can use the standard
>postscript fonts for ConTeXt as well. Have a look at the (yet
>unfinished page)
>
>http://contextgarden.net/Psnfss

Sadly, that page relies on type-pre, which is deprecated!
(Yes, the situation changes again.)

So, the situation should now be:

% Times, Helvetica, Courier:
\usetypescript [adobekb]   [\defaultencoding] % default=ec
\usetypescript [postscript][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont [postscript]

% or, for Times, Helvetica, and Latin Modern TT:
\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\usetypescript [times]  [\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont [times]

% or, for Palatino & Latin Modern TT:
\usetypescript [adobekb]  [\defaultencoding] 
\usetypescript [palatino] [\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont [palatino]

The situation is "dynamic" because, to Hans's increasing frustration,
the font files that get distributed change with just about every release
of tetex (which gwTeX is mostly based on) or TeXLive.

Anyway, I hope this helps in the short term!
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