Re: Fourier Expert Fonts

[Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com>]

Randall Skelton wrote:
> Thanks Matt... after reading a few more sites, I was led back to trying:

Well, I probably can't help much (I haven't been working w/ fonts much 
recently, either), but here are a couple of thoughts.

> texfont --fontroot=$HOME/Library/texmf --vendor=adobe
> --collection=utopia --makepath --install
> 
> This creates a tree in ~/Library/texmf/fonts/*/adobe/utopia where * is
> either afm, tfm, type1, or vf.  I also get
> $HOME/Library/texmf/map/pdftex/context/texnansi-adobe-utopia.map which
> I've added to my pdftex.cfg and run texhash.

That's only useful if you are planning to use TeXnANSI encoding. You 
might try adding --encoding=ec to your texfont invocation. Then I think 
you will get an ec-adobe-utopia.map file.

> Unfortunately, I still
> get CM fonts for the caps and there are no old-style figures?

You mean small caps, I presume? My first guess would be that they're not 
properly referenced in the typescript. As for old-style figures, are you 
sure Utopia is supposed to have them? If so, do you know which font 
contains them?

> Comparing type-enc.tex and the suggestions on Bill McClain's site, the
> typescript definitions are somewhat different and I'm wondering if
> this isn't the source of my problems:
> 
> \definefontsynonym [Fourier-Regular]              [futr8t]   [encoding=ec]
>     vs.
> \definefontsynonym [Fourier-Regular]          [texnansi-futr8t ] 
> [encoding=texnansi]

My experience leads me to think that in general you should reference 
fonts with some encoding prefix. That prefixed name has to correspond to 
a name defined in a map file in your TeX tree; e.g., if your 
texnansi-adobe-utopia.map file defines a name something like 
'texnansi-raw-futr8t.map', then in your typescript, 'texnansi-futr8t' 
should work. Then again, I suspect 'futr8t' might be the wrong name to 
use. Do you have TFM files named 'futr8t.tfm', and so on? Or are they 
named 'utopia'? In the latter case, I think the map file should say, 
e.g., 'texnansi-raw-utopia', and you should say 'texnansi-utopia' in the 
typescript.

If you want to use EC encoding, then I guess you would change every 
instance of 'texnansi' above to 'ec'. By the way, is there a particular 
reason you don't want to use TeXnANSI?

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Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA