Re: Re: Confusion with font instructions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Otared Kavian wrote:

> It is right that handling fonts is extremely disappointing and instable...
> For instance, what used to work does not work anymore properly with the 
> new version of ConTeXt I installed two weeks ago...

much of this has nothing to do with context but with

- switching from cm to lm (context has done this switch, latex will do that later)
- changes in the tds structure (hard to cope with automatically)
- changes in map files etc (there will be some more but in the end that mess 
will be cleaned up so that we don;t have differences in backends any more)

> For instance:
> 
> \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding]

this maps kb names and should work if they are present (only when your encoding 
is ec!)

> \setupbodyfont[postscript]
> \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] %or helvetica, or palatino
> \setupbodyfont[times,12pt]

nothing has changed here

> used to work fine, but now it results in ConTeXt creating, the first 
> time, a whole bunch of things regarding fonts, and then the resulting 
> PDF contains some ugly jagging bitmap-looking characters (interestingly 
> this happens only to the text characters, not to the math characters...).

behaviour also depends on your local cont-sys.tex; what happens if you remove 
that file (or rename it)?

it seems that you have a map file problem

> Adding \usetypescript[postscript] does not help neither.

Hans

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