From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23341 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: cont 2005.10.27 & t5-lmtt10 font problem Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:28:26 +0100 Message-ID: <4371B32A.9040604@wxs.nl> References: <436B3B46.9050203@elvenkind.com> <436B7BA2.6080308@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131526619 22355 80.91.229.2 (9 Nov 2005 08:56:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:56:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 09 09:56:55 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 1EZljw-0000Ya-At for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:55:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACB2127DE; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:55:32 +0100 (CET) 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 29837-05; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:55:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09496127E1; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:28:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B0D127E0 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:28:27 +0100 (CET) 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 29336-01-5 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:28:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1693A127DE for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:28:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 2440 for ; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:31:12 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:23341 Archived-At: Tobias Wolf wrote: >On 11/4/05, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >>Tobias Wolf wrote: >> >> >> >>>My system, as I mentioned, is teTex 3 from Debian unstable, which has >>>a weird new map system that is working through .cfg files in >>>/etc/texmf/updmap.d . I kept it there, so it mounts lm.map itself (is >>>it used anyway in ConText?). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>i don't use updmap at all >> >>context loads map files on demand (when configured in cont-sys.tex) >> >>when no cont-sys.tex is present, then cont-sys.rme is used >> >>the presense of those files in /etc is disturbing (and strange since tex >>has pretty well layed out tree with defined configuration places) >> >>i have no idea how tex + friends can/will locate those files >> >> > >I think they want to make people use /etc for configuration, which >could make sense if you want to make backups of the system config. >The updmap.d directory is supposed to make mounting maps easier, I >guess. You just drop a file there containing the Map/MixedMap >assignments and that is merged into updmap.cfg on issuing updmap-sys. > >Pretty confusing all that. > >But on the other hand, Hans, why can't I compile the PDFTex docs >because I don't have this ( >http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/006705.html ) > > because that one has been dropped long ago \usetypescript[adobekb] [your encoding] (see type-akb.tex) >And secondly, why is the file system searched case sensitive, so that >the fonts are called in lowercase through the ConText maps >(ec-raw-lte5002), so that I have to rename all files, but then >mktextfm fails because it looks for ec-raw-LTe50021? > > hm, i always lowercsase all fonts on installation (font vendors make a mess of case in names) >For me the disturbing things are starting to prevail in my ConText >experience. Is it supposed to be like that? > > depends; fonts are always an issue; also, wanting to handle fonts (names) in context as in latex, you end up in constant changes and updates btw, esp the last few years, there has been many changes in fonts (locations of files, map syntax changes), etc etc Hans