fonts fonts and fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hi all, 

Fonts is still one of the more complicated areas in tex. I have written a
perl script that can do some of the tasks needed to install a 'commercial'
font under context. I'm also working on some math fonts (like micropress
informal which is a nice one and y&y mathtime that can be used with many
fonts).

There are several issues that need to be taken care of: 

- copying fonts the right location in the texmf-local tree
- generating a map file for pdftex 
- generating font synonyms

Now, i'm thinking of setting up a font tfm/vf/map repository but first i
want to knwo if there is any need for that. 

An important issue is the encoding and naming. I know that there are all
those predefined kb font names, but i never work that way: i just use the
original names and one encoding. So, we need to make choices as well as
provide methods, auto map file inclusion etc. It's not that hard actually
but i can only do this if we agree upon it. I want to get rid of the tex
font mess -)

How many of you use fonts other that cmr and what fonts? In what encodings?
In what combinations?  

Hans

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