From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/51852 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arthur Reutenauer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Two newbie questions about Texfont Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:08:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20090717110817.GA4463@phare.normalesup.org> References: <97eab8e50907141047la6ce330qceba240e6b52fbb@mail.gmail.com> <4A5CCABE.7090309@wxs.nl> <97eab8e50907170211q691435eam8862f9cd20c677c0@mail.gmail.com> <7DE5D532-50BB-4191-A6B9-8D2E8C965BB2@gmail.com> <4A604FAC.5010208@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247829063 12050 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2009 11:11:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:11:03 +0000 (UTC) To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 17 13:10:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MRlL6-0002cd-6h for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:10:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA431FB8C; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:10:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28296-04-3; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:09:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5224B1FB95; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:09:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CBC1FB7F for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:09:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28751-02-3 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:09:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11741FB8E for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:08:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nef2.ens.fr (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.40]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n6HB8H3h015399 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:08:17 +0200 Original-Received: from phare.normalesup.org (phare.normalesup.org [129.199.129.80]) by nef2.ens.fr (8.13.6/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id n6HB8HX5093620 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:08:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Envelope-To: Original-Received: by phare.normalesup.org (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 2B179BC0AF; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:08:17 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.1.4 (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:08:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=129.199.96.40; country=FR; region=A8; city=Paris; latitude=48.8667; longitude=2.3333; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.8667,2.3333&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 262282792 - d182b95935fd - 20090717 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:51852 Archived-At: > ah ok, sorry, I was confused by this (on font-forge mailling list): > > >>> 1) import widths from .afm file not working >>> >> Widths are not imported from afm files. Why should they be? Glyph widths >> are in the pfa/pfb files and those are correct. Importing them from afm >> files can just introduce errors. Some metric information is indeed already present in pfa / pfb files, but not all of it (ligatures, kerning...) Arthur ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________