From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18352 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Wachter Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Choosing an encoding - what are the consequences? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:29:18 +0100 Message-ID: <4214E27E.3040207@gmx.de> References: <4211B4EA.1030200@gmx.de> <20050215145054.13727@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108664808 18272 80.91.229.2 (17 Feb 2005 18:26:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Feb 17 19:26:47 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 1D1qMM-0004SM-7L for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:26:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFE8127D8; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:29:31 +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 32152-05; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:29:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 052691279D; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:29:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7B81279D for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:29:26 +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 32322-03 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:29:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id AF8B512797 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:29:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2005 18:29:25 -0000 Original-Received: from p54A245CF.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [192.168.1.33]) (84.162.69.207) by mail.gmx.net (mp025) with SMTP; 17 Feb 2005 19:29:25 +0100 X-Authenticated: #10144042 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20050215145054.13727@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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:18352 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18352 Adam Lindsay wrote: > Okay, as far as I know, ConTeXt doesn't have an 8a/Adobe encoding vect= or > defined yet. What does it mean that ConTeXt doesn't have an 8a/Adobe encoding vector?=20 Isn't it enough for ConTeXt that there is an 8a.enc file? (I am prepared=20 to write the necessary typescripts myself.) > > >>2. Can I ommit the 8a encoding in map files when PDF documents are >>generated (because it is the Adobe standard encoding)? > > > Dunno. But it's worth finding out! :) I installed the Adobe Helvetica fonts in 8a encoding using texfont. Then=20 I removed the download instructions in the generated map files. After=20 that I could generate PDF documents that are rather minimal: no fonts or=20 encodings were embedded. Yet, the results were in some way unexpected. It seems that the 8a=20 encoding really isn't supported by ConTeXt. For example if I say \setupencoding[default=3D8a] and output the character \char251 then I get a "=DF" in the resulting PDF. I am very astonished to receive=20 that character because in 8a, T1, and texnansi encoding the glyph=20 /ucircumflex is located at that slot. Maybe this has to do with virtual fonts? I still struggle with all these=20 matters. 1. The afm2tfm tool allows to set two different encodings: "-p ps-enc"=20 and "-t tex-enc" whereas texfont offers only one encoding. Does texfont=20 use the same encoding for the ps-enc and the tex-enc? 2. What is the meansing of the ps-enc and the tex-enc, respectively? Can anyone help with these questions? --Stefan