From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23557 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Out of Date? Up to Date? Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:27:28 +0100 Message-ID: <43804F90.3080501@elvenkind.com> References: <47A0FB74-04C7-4973-9E3C-09E9771FACDC@northcoast.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 1132482761 20575 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2005 10:32:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Nov 20 11:32:38 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 1EdmU5-0000uu-VS for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:31:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D3E12798; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:31:45 +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 22543-07; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:31:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF6A12791; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:28:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3616E12791 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:28:09 +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 22543-05 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:28:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E191278D for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:28:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:60917 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EdmQZ-000KVw-TF for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:28:08 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <47A0FB74-04C7-4973-9E3C-09E9771FACDC@northcoast.com> 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:23557 Archived-At: David Arnold wrote: > All, > > If I read: > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mfonts.pdf > > How up to date or out of date is the information in this manual? Hi David, It looks like it is still quite up-to-date, but some of the examples it gives may no longer be the very best and latest way of doing things, and possibly there are some new developments that do not get as much attention as desired (like texfont, and the issues arising from font map files). Overall, the document appears accurate, though. An important thing to remember is this: ConTeXt does not share font metric conventions with LaTeX. (at one point it started doing so, like supporting the Karl Berry naming scheme and the psnfss style font family names, but that has since been abandoned). Another important thing is that it also does not share font map files with LaTeX and, specifically, ConTeXt does not make pdfetex read pdftex.map. (this is at the root of a great many problems reported by users only familiar with nfss) The preferred format for metric files in ConTeXt is //-.tfm for metrics and --.map for the mapping files. is usually derived from the font source (afm or ttf), is a 'controlled' list, and are user-supplied (at install time). There are ways to trick ConTeXt into using different conventions, but if you do that you are likely to run into trouble (as you have experienced). Greetings, Taco