Re: Re: Confusion with font instructions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Adam Lindsay wrote:

> Sadly, that page relies on type-pre, which is deprecated!
> (Yes, the situation changes again.)

hm, i can enable that one again, but will not give guarantees (some fonts have 
changed, for instance antikwa and we now have proper encoding support for latin 
modern so all those other things should go otherwise they will interfere;

which ones from type-pre are used?

> So, the situation should now be:
> 
> % Times, Helvetica, Courier:
> \usetypescript [adobekb]   [\defaultencoding] % default=ec
> \usetypescript [postscript][\defaultencoding]
> \setupbodyfont [postscript]
> 
> % or, for Times, Helvetica, and Latin Modern TT:
> \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding]
> \usetypescript [times]  [\defaultencoding]
> \setupbodyfont [times]
> 
> % or, for Palatino & Latin Modern TT:
> \usetypescript [adobekb]  [\defaultencoding] 
> \usetypescript [palatino] [\defaultencoding]
> \setupbodyfont [palatino]
> 
> The situation is "dynamic" because, to Hans's increasing frustration,
> the font files that get distributed change with just about every release
> of tetex (which gwTeX is mostly based on) or TeXLive.

indeed; the only way out is to have an additional zip with font files (something 
that we discussed last ntg meeting); for instance,

- say that you want verbatim
- and use ec encoding
- and use kb names
- and don't want --- ligatures and such

.... impossible (with the current tex, less impossible with the next release of 
pdftex) .. so, you switch to texnansi

- for which there are kb names
- but metrics are never shipped
- so you need to generate them with texfont
- and then *not* load the kn typescripts

etc etc. it's just impossible to keep up with feature requests (fonts, 
languages, backends) and at the same time be compatible with the way latex users 
are accustomed to it cq. latex changes dealing with fonts cq. distributions keep 
changing

(so guess why i only use tex font generated metrics)

> Anyway, I hope this helps in the short term!

Hans

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