From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4343 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: fonts fonts and fonts Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:25:08 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010313102508.0196aea0@server-1> References: <01K156WYRVOU9AS7ZF@wkap.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395021 25030 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:43:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:43:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: siep.kroonenberg@wkap.nl In-Reply-To: <01K156WYRVOU9AS7ZF@wkap.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4343 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4343 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------