From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22398 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Problem following "OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt" article Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:52:49 +0200 Message-ID: <43246EF1.8080209@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f005090913443325ef79@mail.gmail.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 1126461231 17786 80.91.229.2 (11 Sep 2005 17:53:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 11 19:53:47 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 1EEW0h-0006sz-L2 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:52:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32515127DD; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:52:59 +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 29276-02; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:52:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DFE127C1; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:52:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B131C127C1 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:52:53 +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 29196-07-2 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:52:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB94E127C0 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:52:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8BHqgZe004816; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:52:42 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 0116F31513; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:59:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.15] (unknown [10.100.1.15]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BB826DDA; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:59:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f005090913443325ef79@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on mailrelay02 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:22398 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: >Gavin Sinclair wrote: > > >>Greetings (first post), >> >>Adam Lindsay's recent article "OpenType installation basics for >>ConTeXt" in The PracTeX Journal >>(http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/lindsay) is very well written. >>Unfortunately, I was unable to perform the first step. >> >>As the article specified, I ran the command: >> >>$ texfont --ma --in --ve=public --co=torunska --lcdf --pre --va=liga,kern >> >>It started off OK, but failed to properly create the map file. >> >> > >After playing a bit with TeXfont I figured out that it is pretty >hopeless to try to use TeXfont under windows (esp. under MikTeX) until >some code portions get fixed. You can replace single quotes by double >quotes in line 900 of TeXfont, but that won't lead you much further. >There are problems with slashes/backslashes as well (the developers >use linux & mac and probably nobody ever checked the functionality >under windows besides the fact that I had problems with otftotfm >alone). > > > the problem is limited to the otf part ... the rest works ok for me on windows >In the mean time, it's perhaps possible to use linux to make font >metrics/map files and copy them to windows partition again or to >manually call the otftotfm program and make a map file by yourself. > > we can set up a font repository ... 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------