From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23445 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: font problems again Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:07:44 +0100 Message-ID: <4377C740.4040106@wxs.nl> References: <11BB86F2-69A1-4D89-A72E-C32D647FBC8F@science.uva.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 1131925416 25440 80.91.229.2 (13 Nov 2005 23:43:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:43:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 14 00:43:31 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 1EbRVP-0000Wz-LY for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:43:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67324127BB; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:43:22 +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 09476-05; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:43:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147F0127B2; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:07:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68617127B2 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:07:40 +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 08584-09 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:07:39 +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 566A5127A9 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:07:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.109] (unverified [10.100.1.109]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 3054 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:10:55 +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: <11BB86F2-69A1-4D89-A72E-C32D647FBC8F@science.uva.nl> 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:23445 Archived-At: Hans van der Meer wrote: > No help from enabling in cont-sys.tex of: > \usetypescript[adobekb] [\defaultencoding] > (updmap.cfg contains URWkb for the LW35 fonts) > then it starts asking for (non-existing) maps like: > Warning: pdfetex (file ec-urw-helvetica.map): cannot open font map file that is when you use texfont generated metrics texfont --encoding=ec --batch type-tfm.dat will generate those metrics (which are the ones i use) > > If I use > \setupbodyfont[lbr,12pt] > then I get just lm-roman, although I have the YandY lucida fonts > installed with their original YandY names (lb--.pfb) > Here no help from changing between texnansi and ec default encoding. lucida is a special case -) because i used lucida a lot, those definitions ended up in the core, but when i bought more and more fonts, i finally decided to move the lucida defs to the type-buy.tex typescript because that;s where they belong you can add the line: \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] to the cont-sys.tex file, but best is (because it's a document property) to say in you document (or style): \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] % loads commercial font definitions \usetypescript[lucida][texnansi] % defines a lucida typeface \setupbodyfont[lucida,12pt] % enables the typeface defined as 'lucida' (see type-buy.tex) so, basically, the 'lbr' choice is gone the same is true for 'pos'; which originally was meant for the fonts that adobe shipped (but no longer does); over time it became for instance \usetypescript[postscript][ec] % times, helvetica, courier, tx math; properly r-scaled or in components \usetypescript[times][ec] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] in principle the \usetypescript [adobekb] [ec] % depending on what is in use, if in doubt use [all] should work; (keep in mind that in spite of all kind of references in tex environments to encodings, often only ec is shipped) > Any idea whats amiss? I ran this on a teTeX3 install with the context > files unzipped into texmf-local. > (I must confess I am tempted to give up on ConTeXt altogether, > because of these many font troubles.) well, latin modern is kind of special for a while (because it involves some major changes in distributions as well) but that will stabelize (only new fonts will be added to the latin modern family; context for instance does support teh condensed monospaced already) concerning distributions: because of changes in map, enc, whatever, i don't use updmap (i have way more fonts on my machine than present in distributed map files) how old is your cont-sys.tex? take a look at cont-sys.rme and see what has changed (keep in mind that pdftex occasionally changes and we need to keep up with that as well) [once a generic map file model is in place - which is on the agenda for pdftex cum suis] live may become more easy Hans