Re: how to use Times Roman font

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Matthias Weber wrote:
> Xue,
> 
>  I am not a font expert at all, and we are on different platforms.
> 
> If I understand correctly, the font mechanism in TeXExec has been
> changing, and different  ConTeXt versions rely on different versions of
> pdfeTeX (not only for font reasons, but also for pdf features).

not really, they try to adapt themselves invisible

> It should be imperative to use compatible versions of both, even though
> I have no clue how to achieve this -- (on the Mac, Gerben's iinstaller
> is nicely taking care of this, but I don't know about Windows)

normally this is no problem, i run old and new versions alongside; teh biggest 
change in the latest pdftex is that the locations of the enc/map files have 
changed (not context related, more tds/texmf); context never used the pdftex cfg 
file so no problems should be expected there

> In my recent experience, it was not a good idea to use the latest 
> (March) ConTeXt beta
> without making sure that your remaining TeX installation (including 
> fonts) is completely
> up-to-date. As I don't know how easy it is to move to some other  
> 'release' on Windows,
> I don't know how feasible this recommendation is. Maybe somebody on 
> Windows for whom
> times works can give you some information which versions he is using, 
> and how to get them.

for the transition to latim modern one indeed needs latin modern fonts (zip on 
our website); making this change has to happen anyway; also, when one uses latin 
modern as well as context pattern files; one can use more font encodings with 
regards to hyphenation

> I also wonder why the pdf made at ConTeXtgarden opens in Acrobat with 
> font substitution -- the fonts should be
> universally available, I believe.

strange, this should not happen with an embedded font

Hans

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