From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18190 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fonts in ConTeXt! Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:53:41 +0100 Message-ID: <4209CF95.7070406@wxs.nl> References: <42066E01.8040104@ision.nl> <420732F0.80906@wxs.nl> <4207A04E.2070305@ision.nl> <4208816E.7080408@wxs.nl> <4209234A.4000605@ision.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107939221 3516 80.91.229.2 (9 Feb 2005 08:53:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Feb 09 09:53:41 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cyna3-00023W-Bj for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:52:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1D312783; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:53:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15069-03; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:53:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E2C1277B; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:53:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2AC81277B for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:53:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15000-04 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:53:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1709E12772 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:53:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j198rdNO003386 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:53:39 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 37AC417B45; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:43:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDDE17B36 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:43:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4209234A.4000605@ision.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/540/Tue Oct 19 14:59:23 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18190 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18190 G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: > I'm afraid that I don't understand this! I'm not using Debian TeX, but > installed TeXLive Ed.9 (2003) on my Debian (3.0r) based Linux box. > > Am I right in saying that an installation of ConTeXt from TeXLive is > incomplete? Do I really have to fetch the latest ConTeXt from PRAGMA ADE > to get those fonts working? Do I perhaps have to configure ConTeXt more > before being able to use those fonts? normally that should work, however - sometimes linxu distributions have preinstalled tex's or have the profiles adapted for tex installations, and that may clash - there have been some fundamental non compatible changed in the tex tree and extensions to pdftex so it's best not to mix old and new, i.e. best to update to the latest greatest > Well fetching large files from Internet is very time consuming when > using a simple modem, which I do, with an average speed of around > 4Kbytes/sec! So this isn't really an option. actually, when you would install the minumal tree, you could use rsync to synchronize the differences and that is pretty fast > Isn't it possible to create the missing tfm files, which ConTeXt uses, > from the fonts already present in /usr/TeX/texmf/fonts? > > What if I install TeXLive 2004? that should work ok; there is a special context tree on the dvd as well, with all documentation and such so that saves you some bandwidth Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------