Re: font question

[Bill McClain <wmcclain@salamander.com>]

Frans Goddijn wrote:
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> since I can now easily compile a simple test file, I tried to add my
> existing own Times font setup with expert set, following the method I'd
> documented from the time that I worked with my home-cooked installation of
> fpTeX and ConTeXt. I copied the relevant files to the directories I would
> expect this setup to find them (for instance, from the former
> \mytex\fonts\type1\fg to \mytex\texmf\tex\fonts\type1\fg et cetera) but it
> is as hard as it is supposed to be ;=}

My only experience is with Type1 fonts and pdftex, but I have found this
to be true:

(1) If the pfb file is under the type1 tree, and...
(2) if the tfm file is under the tfm tree, and...
(3) if both of those files are listed on the same line in pdftex.map (or
other configurable resource), and...
(4) if the filename database has been refreshed with texhash or mktexlsr
since any new files were introduced, and...
(5) if all of the above files can be found with the kpsewhich utility...

...it should work.

If the fonts are found but some effects are missing (small caps,
old-style figures, etc) then some ConTeXt definitions need to be
adjusted.

-Bill