From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19558 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Ermers Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: chancery font Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:42:46 +0200 Message-ID: <42501D06.1000909@hccnet.nl> References: <42ADAC66@webmail.colostate.edu> Reply-To: r.ermers@hccnet.nl, 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 1112545884 6818 80.91.229.2 (3 Apr 2005 16:31:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:31:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Apr 03 18:31:22 2005 Return-path: 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 1DI809-0004LN-Pe for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:31:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58791128C3; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:32:46 +0200 (CEST) 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 01696-02-6; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:32:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199D612892; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:32:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5DB012892 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:32:40 +0200 (CEST) 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 01696-02-5 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:32:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hnexfe08.hetnet.nl (hnexfe08.hetnet.nl [195.121.6.174]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB4F127F0 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:32:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([81.206.233.107]) by hnexfe08.hetnet.nl with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6874); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:32:39 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <42ADAC66@webmail.colostate.edu> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Apr 2005 16:32:39.0859 (UTC) FILETIME=[C094C030:01C5386A] 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19558 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19558 Thanks Thomas for the manual. I have already printed it, and cannot wait to give it a try. In the mean time I welcome any other concrete tips for installing a new font, step by step that is. If you recall the earlier postings: my idea would be to start with a new font consisting of only one pfb file. I would like to understand each Context instruction in the files, in order to be better able to reproduce it. In my previous attempts, I often copied instructions without really understanding why they were needed. In my last attempt the pk file was not generated, perhaps not due to Context...? (Although the font did work under Latex.) In the end my ideal would be a context which typesets Arabic, Russian and Turkish, plus transcription according to a code I developed myself. Kind regards, Robert Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users > > ===== > >>Rob Ermers said this at Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:03:24 +0200: >> >> >>>I completely agree. Context works fine but, like you, I have not >>>succeeded in installing any new font thusfar. >> >>Okay, I get the message: there are quite a few frustrated would-be font >>users out there. I see it as being something that someone can understand >>(and explain) fairly well in the abstract, but the details throw up >>distribution-specific problems. > > > Not only that, Adam, but the configuration issues involve so much minutae that > it is very easy to make simple mistakes that cause, e.g, typescripts to fail. > As Ciro suggested, what what would be useful is a gui that completely > automates the process and that asks all relevant questions and generates > everything ConTeXt needs to install and run Latin fonts, including expert > fonts like Minion.**** (Maybe oneday the gui can be extended for Chinese, > Arabic, etc.) > > On the other hand, I did manage to get a virtual font created by fontinst (old > style numeral cmr) to work in ConTeXt without using any of the > ConTeXt-specific utilities. I wrote the typescript entirely from scratch, with > optical scaling and all; if that complicated set of typefaces could work, any > Latin font should work. But debugging this sort of thing may take time, which > can be frustrating. > > ****Qt4.0 will be gpl, I'd love to see e.g., an elegant crossplatform Qt/Ruby > application that does this:-) > > Best > Idris > > ============================ > Professor Idris Samawi Hamid > Department of Philosophy > Colorado State University > Fort Collins, CO 80523 > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > >