From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/34291 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texexec+mpost cmr10 vs CMR10 trouble using dvips backend Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:21:17 -0300 Message-ID: <22af238a0704160721m5f77e077ua1dbfc75d0d18e9e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070415185830.50bb1c72.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.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: sea.gmane.org 1176733305 2058 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2007 14:21:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:21:45 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Apr 16 16:21:38 2007 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 1HdS5K-0000sG-5z for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:21:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC5320050; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:21:37 +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 07964-01-2; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:21:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3EE20052; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:21:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C09820052 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:21:27 +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 06957-02-3 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:21:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.229]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C021020050 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:21:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h29so1446037wxd for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.113.1 with SMTP id l1mr1922348wac.1176733277803; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.14.8 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:21:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:34291 Archived-At: On 4/16/07, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > > can also try to create the pd file by hand with "dvips -Ppdf test", > > that gave a correct output on my system. > > Thanks, that works. I guess -Ppdf tells it to use map files that find > the type1 fonts, so cmr in the metapost figures is replaced by the > lmodern .pfb. Oh, that's not what happens: it instead finds the > cmr10.pfb and includes it correctly. So the final document uses > lmodern for the page number (from the ConTeXt src file) and cmr10 for > the 'hello' from the metapost figure. This is a hint that the underlying problem is related to map files. With the lm-rep maps the cm "hello" should become lmodern. > Though I'm a bit scared of -Ppdf from years ago when I think it caused > encoding problems. A few characters didn't show up correctly in the > pdf file, but only when using non-cmr fonts. I think that was fixed long ago, but I rarely use .dvi anymore. -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia