From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23643 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: mfonts.tex from manuals Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:47:35 +0100 Message-ID: <438448C7.3090203@wxs.nl> References: <438419D2.1060904@elvenkind.com> 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 1132743117 2645 80.91.229.2 (23 Nov 2005 10:51:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:51:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 23 11:51:55 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 1EesDv-0004wP-82 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:51:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD58012806; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:51:34 +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 31569-05; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:51:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F346312807; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:47:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B92312807 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:47:41 +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 31569-04 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:47:40 +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 4F8DB12806 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:47:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 4498 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:51:55 +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: <438419D2.1060904@elvenkind.com> 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:23643 Archived-At: Taco Hoekwater wrote: > 1. Certainly the *easiest* way to get a working solution is to > change the fontsynonyms in typ-dis.tex so that they match the real > world instead of the desired world. in the past we have cycled between both [u|p]plr8t kind of names and the problem was that (1) sometimes one of them was missing (2) this aliasses file (obscure kpse feature) was interfering (3) the location of files changed [this urw35v thing] resulting in missed files while copying for instance, it was always a gamble what reference to the dingbats would work today so > > 2. But on the other hand, that would be promoting a rather bad > practise, and deleting the fontsynonyms instead would be better. this looks like the way to go > > I happen to know that Hans will start distributing a cont-fnt.zip > file soon that will contain texfont-style metrics, so my vote goes > to the second solution. that makes two votes ... Hans