Re: Using Postscript Type 1 fonts in ConTeXt/XeTeX?

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 01:10:06 +0100
"Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> > Am 2008-03-03 um 17:44 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> >
> >  > - or to patch ConTeXt to use xdv2pdf instead of xdvipdfmx + rewrite a
> >  > bunch of definitions that load Latin Modern (they should not be loaded
> >  > since xdv2pdf doesn't support "traditional TeX-installed fonts")
> >
> >  Since there are OpenType LM fonts now, one could just install them
> >  for the OS.
> 
> True. But there are to mechanisms to load fonts: by font name or by
> filename. By filename only works in xdvipdfmx and by font name
> requires the font to be installed (and thus cannot be made the
> default/cannot be expected from users).
> 
> If there were enough requests, xdv2pdf could be made optional by:
> - providing an extra switch for texexec

IRC this is already possible on a Mac, "texexec --xtx" use dvipdfmx
and "texexec --xetex" use xdv2pdf to convert the DVI file to PDF. 

> - providing an alternative that doesn't use Latin Modern by filename
> (which means either not loading OpenType LM at all or assuming that
> it's installed)
> 
> I just didn't feel that it would be necessary to support that (didn't
> know the limitations of xdvipdfmx) when I was asking Hans to write
> patches. If there are requests to do it, it could probably be done.

Wolfgang
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