From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19555 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: RE: chancery font Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:15:19 -0600 Message-ID: <42ADAC66@webmail.colostate.edu> 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112545142 4834 80.91.229.2 (3 Apr 2005 16:19:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Apr 03 18:19:01 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 1DI7ny-0003DQ-RV for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:18:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C30F1279B; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:20:11 +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 01562-01; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:20:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A971283F; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:15:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E6741283F for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:15:22 +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 01369-06 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:15:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E516A1279B for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:15:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j33GFKS889114 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:15:20 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail.colostate.edu (csunts4.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.135]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j33GFJH12982 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:15:19 -0600 X-WebMail-UserID: ishamid Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002247, 00002264 X-Mailer: Infinite Mobile Delivery (Hydra) SMTP v3.62.01 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:19555 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19555 >===== 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