MikTeX 2.4 and Fonts

MikTeX 2.4 and Fonts

[Dieter Jakob]

Dear Hans,

Silly Questions:

I use MikTeX 2.4 and there are some ConTeXt Demos underneath
texmf/doc/context/demos.
If I try to process the File: "d-en-005.tex" the Statement
\setupbodyfont[pos] makes
trouble; for PDF-Output.

The Fonts in your Documentation looks so nice; I'm looking for a nice Serif
Font e.g.
Palationo.

Unfortunately the documentation about Fonts, I can't put into practice.

Can you help me to get the Adobe Fonts for PDF up and running?

Best Regards
Dieter

Re: MikTeX 2.4 and Fonts

[Mari Voipio]

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Dieter Jakob wrote:
> Can you help me to get the Adobe Fonts for PDF up and running?

Having recently fought with the same issue (i.e. \setupbodyfont[pos]) with
my recent installation of TeXLive, I found one answer in the user settings
- this might be what you are looking for (don't understand enough of fonts
to say for sure).


The TeXLive cont-sys.rme/cont-sys.tex settings file says:

% If you run into missing font metrics kind of problems,
% you may want to uncomment:

% \usetypescript[adobekb] [\defaultencoding]


Well, I don't expect my users to understand about changing the
cont-sys.rme/cont-sys.tex file, so the settings need to be in the
file/environment and thus I  put this on top of my file instead (I
use ec encoding, seems to work best with Windows):

	\usetypescript[adobekb][ec]
	\usetypescript[pos] % maybe I don't need this line any more???
	\setupbodyfont[pos,10pt]


And it works like a charm, at least with my files. All complaints stopped
at once, which made me *very* happy. Looks like I can soon provide my
dummy users with something easily installable that doesn't need any
tweaking...


Hope this helps,
		Mari

Re: MikTeX 2.4 and Fonts

[Hans Hagen]

Mari Voipio wrote:

>On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Dieter Jakob wrote:
>  
>
>>Can you help me to get the Adobe Fonts for PDF up and running?
>>    
>>
>
>Having recently fought with the same issue (i.e. \setupbodyfont[pos]) with
>my recent installation of TeXLive, I found one answer in the user settings
>- this might be what you are looking for (don't understand enough of fonts
>to say for sure).
>
>
>The TeXLive cont-sys.rme/cont-sys.tex settings file says:
>
>% If you run into missing font metrics kind of problems,
>% you may want to uncomment:
>
>% \usetypescript[adobekb] [\defaultencoding]
>
>
>Well, I don't expect my users to understand about changing the
>cont-sys.rme/cont-sys.tex file, so the settings need to be in the
>file/environment and thus I  put this on top of my file instead (I
>use ec encoding, seems to work best with Windows):
>
>	\usetypescript[adobekb][ec]
>	\usetypescript[pos] % maybe I don't need this line any more???
>	\setupbodyfont[pos,10pt]
>
>
>And it works like a charm, at least with my files. All complaints stopped
>at once, which made me *very* happy. Looks like I can soon provide my
>dummy users with something easily installable that doesn't need any
>tweaking...
>  
>
\setupbodyfont[pos] is the old method and in that case the \usetypescript[pos] is not needed

the more modern way is: 

\usetypescript[postscript][ec]
\setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] 

that way you can mix typefaces, e.g. 

\usetypescript[palatino][ec]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] 


Hans 

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