From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20678 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: newest version on teTeX-3.0 Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:05:15 +0200 Message-ID: <42A1B51B.4070109@wxs.nl> References: <42A1806C.1030701@wxs.nl> <200506040850.00612.john@wexfordpress.com> 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 1117893838 15973 80.91.229.2 (4 Jun 2005 14:03:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:03:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jun 04 16:03:49 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 1DeZFK-0001qa-Ld for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:03:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0541D127FB; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:06:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25416-05; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:06:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5A1127E2; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:05:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2BF127E2 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:05:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25416-03-3 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:05:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA161278A for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:05:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j54E54KA029348; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id B21D81FC55; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:35:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.53] (unknown [10.100.1.53]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96C11FB99; Sat, 4 Jun 2005 13:35:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: "John R. Culleton" In-Reply-To: <200506040850.00612.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20678 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20678 John R. Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 04 June 2005 10:20 am, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>i'm not familiar with updmap >> >>(dvipdfm works ok now, is there a mapfile loading special in dvips?) >> >>Hans > > Updmap is a new method of updating all the various font i know what it does, but i don;t know the dirty details -) i don't use it because (1) i had other mechanisms in place before updmap came around keep in mind that i have quite some fonts on my system, and esp for commercial fonts have metrics that may not match ones that now or later show up in the tex distributions and map entries play a role in inclusion of pdf graphics and i don't want surprises (read: wrong metrics and substitutions) (2) i want more control over loading (handy when you have thousands of fonts) (3) when this 'big map file' came around it froze pdftex due to the implementation of map files in pdftex, but that was solved later, as well as caused inclusions problems due to the fact that duplicate FontName entries clash (esp tricky with slanted of expanded fonts) So, i'd rather play safe -) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------