Re: installing fonts...

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:30 AM 1/7/01 +0100, Roef Ragas wrote:
>
>Let's say I want to buy a font, the Quadraat Sans for example, a goodlooking 
>sans serif by Fred Smeijers (www.fontshop.com).
>FontShop can provide those fonts in PostScript. How difficult is it, to use 
>fonts like these in ConTeXt?

Others already pointed out some strategies. Maybe we should try to make
this some service somehow. 

The complication is mainly in getting the fonts in a suitable encoding. The
standard tex encoding has the accents in funny places, so you can't use
this to make composed chars, and for using the built on composed chars, you
would need for instance a conversion to ec or texnansi encoding [tfm and/or
vf files]. 

I'm in the process of redefining encoding vectors to use named glyphs and
multiple methods [thanh: remind me that we have to discuss vietnamese!]. I
can provide a simple vector that uses the accents in the standard adobe
positions with composed chars them, which would work for nl/de/fr as a
quick and dirty method.] 

What you can try is to copy the content of font-phv.tex to for instance
roef.tex and to replace the Helvetica names with your font names: 

\define... [Sans...] [yourname] [encoding=texnansi] 

and see what happens when you say 

\setupbodyfont[sans,10pt]

abcdef... \"e \"i etc. If the dutch accented chars come out ok, you're
safe. If ii'm right, texnansi encoding is nearly suitable for all standard
fonts. 

Otherwise, I should accept thanh's offer to make you suitable ec encoded
tfm files -) 

Hans

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