Re: fonts fonts and fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:11 AM 3/13/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>On Mon, Mar 12, 2001, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> 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. 
>
>Are you using fontinst for this? This should imho be the best way to do
>it, because you can also use the font for tex/latex.

i've given up on fontinst long ago, i just use the fonts out of the box and
only generate tfm's 

>> There are several issues that need to be taken care of: 
>> 
>> - copying fonts the right location in the texmf-local tree
>
>tetex keeps all font-related files in subdirs foundry/fontname, e.g.
>fonts/tfm/adobe/minion.

i currently di that as well, but i keep all fonts on the local tree, i even
use the tir times fonts instead of the funny named ones 

>create a new map file for dvips and pdftex.

i must admit that i only looked at pdftex and dvipsone, is dvips already in
tune with pdftex with regardd to the map file? 

>A repository for what? 

the tfm files that i use + the map files that i use for fonts that i bought
/ use

>Imho it's better to stay with fontinst. But this certainly needs
>an easy-to-use frontend. If you tell the user, after fontinst has
>completed, that he can now use Minion by \setupbodyfont [minion], then
>he won't see anything of the "tex font mess". So the user should use the
>real name of the font, but the software the kb names.

I only wished that the kb named were more verbose which should not be a
problem today. [i also want as less tfm files on my machine as possible;
actually, it's near to impossible to explain to organization that we work
for to explain what those names are]

minion/myriad are very special cases; i'm playing with myriad now, and
adobe does not even provide the files it says is provides [that's a real mess]

>I have used the standard pdf fonts, Lucidabright, Utopia, Charter and
>the Microsoft Core Fonts. All in texnansi encoding, because I still
>don't understand how this encoding stuff works... :-(  But I never
>had problems with this. Except that some symbols are taken from
>the Computer Modern Math fonts.

texnansi is good (i use it here) but i'm not sure how it matches ec, i just
installed the informal math and helvetica math; seems to work ok too [but
it's hard to find a match for myriad]

Hans
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