Re: Fw: Re: Update ConTeXt 2004-12-06 for teTeX 2.99.4-beta: map files

Re: Fw: Re: Update ConTeXt 2004-12-06 for teTeX 2.99.4-beta: map files

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Toch maar eerst even alleen naar jou ipv naar ntg-pdftex ...
> 
> On the ConTeXT list, Thomas Esser stated:
> 
> 
>>>1. In ConTeXt all map files are in fonts/map/pdftex/context/*.map
>>
>>That's the wrong location. There is nothing pdftex specific in these
>>files, so the "syntax" is dvips, not pdftex. I have told Hans about it.
> 
> 
> Is this really true these days? I remember that in the past pdftex and 
> dvips mapfiles have had a number of different options, and I thought that
> was still the case. Is mapfile.c from dvips and pdftex really the same file 
> these days?

discussion on the tex live list about files being generic ended up nowhere since 
there is nothing generic defined;

i put the files under pdftex because i want the freedom to adapt them to changes 
/ bugs / whatever when needed; for instance i (and users) can manipulate these 
files by removing font names, which will make them non-dvips;

anyhow, when the new pdftex is distributed and available widely i will probably 
no longer use map files but do run-time definitions (using \pdfmapline); 
dvipdfmx will provide similar features


Hans


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