From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4063 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [Q] how to use 8r-encoded fonts Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:45:09 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010214134509.015fa500@server-1> References: <3A89B3E3.D37C20E@quicknet.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394756 22549 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:39:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Han The Thanh In-Reply-To: <200102140956.KAA24757@anxur.fi.muni.cz> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4063 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4063 At 10:56 AM 2/14/01 +0100, Han The Thanh wrote: >Hi Taco, > >> That's what 8r (r for raw) is: a re-encoded postscript font. It's a >> very nasty encoding to work with because the accents are all in weird >> places (for TeX), and there are usualy no ligatures nor kerning info >> in the metric files. > >I think 8r-encoded fonts do contain ligatures and kerning info -- at least >that what I saw from the ones I have. > >> Thanh, why do you need it and precisely what font is it? If you just >> need a 'simple' re-encoded font, it is probably better to re-encode to >> TeXNAnsi (8y) which is both a better reencoding and directly supported by >> context. > >yes it sounds great, probably I will try it. I wanted to use 8r so I can access >all glyphs from a `typical' PS font. I don't like ec too much, as it's >rather cubersome (requires virtual fonts). If i'm right, you must have a series of yandy fonts (lbr) and in their docs are some quite good readme's about fonts and encoding issues. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------