Re: Fonts problems

[Vit Zyka <vit.zyka@seznam.cz>]

Michal Kvasnička wrote:
> Good afternoon.
> 
> I apologize that I bother you once more, but I'm getting desperate. :-( 
> I have still problem with fonts in ConTeXt---perhaps I'm not able to 
> install it well. I use ConTeXt  ver: 2006.02.03 21:00, pdfeTeX, Version 
> 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4), tetex-3.0-13 under SuSE Linux 9.2 (the 
> tetex is grabbed from Suse 9.3). I tried to copy all files where I 
> thought they should have been, texhashed, and build formats. Now, some 
> things work, but not all of them, and not in an expected way.
> 
> Problem 1: I expect that a following file should typeset "tufte" in 
> Latin Modern font.
>     \setupoutput[pdf]
>     \starttext
>     \input tufte
>     \stoptext
> ConTeXt loads some map files (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map
> /dvips/context/original-empty.map}{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ori
> ginal-base.map}{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-public-lm.map}{/usr
> /share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-base.map}{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dv
> ips/context/8r-base.map}{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/t5-base.map}{
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base.map}{/usr/share/tex
> mf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-ams-euler.map}{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/d
> vips/context/original-public-lm.map}), but it clearly isn't able to find 
> the right one, since it writes this error message:
>     kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 
> ec-lmr12
>     mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr12.

Hello,

it seems like old lm package (wrong map files). Try to update from
http://www.tug.org/cgi-bin/dirarchive/tex-archive/fonts/lm/fonts.zip

Vit Zyka

>     kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>      )
>     Warning: pdfetex (file ec-lmr12): Font ec-lmr12 at 72 not found
> I can correct it when I add one more file:
>     \loadmapfile[psclean.map]
> But I was told that I should omit this line. What's the problem? How can 
> I correct it?
> 
> 
> Problem 2: Let's suppose I add into the previous file this 
>     B\"oh-Bawerk
> then the letter \"o is missing (a white space is on its place). Isn't 
> there a bug in the Latin modern fonts/virtual fonts/metrics, or 
> whatever? Moreover, gv views the hyphen over the "h" and "B" letters. 
> (Acrobat Reader 7 view it all right.) How is that possible.
> 
> 
> Problem 3: Some fonts are not used properly. The following file
>     \setupoutput[pdf]
>     \loadmapfile[psclean.map]
>     \usetypescript[ppl] % working pos
>     \switchtobodyfont[ppl,10pt]
>     \starttext
>     \input tufte\par
>     \stoptext
> works well. It works even if I change "pos" to "ppl", "ptm", "phv", or 
> "tim". It works even when changed to "pcr", but the text is ragged. When 
> changed to "con", "bookman", or "iwona", it does nothing---the text is 
> typeset in Latin Modern. When changed to "ant", I get this error message:
>     kpathsea: Running mktextfm sy-anttrz
>     /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation 
> y- for sy-anttrz.
>     /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update 
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
>     mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; 
> nonstopmode; input sy-anttrz
>     This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4)
>     kpathsea: Running mktexmf sy-anttrz
>     ! I can't find file `sy-anttrz'.
> I think I have installed all these fonts (instead of Adobe fonts I have 
> URW ones). What's wrong.
> 
> 
> 
> Problem 4: From what afm files were the tfm metrics for Times, 
> Helvetica, and Palatino generated? Accents are positioned in a strange 
> way and after a tquoteright is a strange hole (bad kerning).  A long 
> time ago I've generated myself tfm metrics from afm files of URW fonts, 
> and they look much better. Were these afm files used, or were used some 
> afm metrics of fonts that do not include accented letter, i.e. are those 
> letters just TeX-based composites?
> 
> 
> 
> Problem 5: How can I switch back to CS fonts? (Well, I know I bother you 
> all, but I still do not like Latin Modern fonts.) :-( I thought that 
> something like this could work, but it doesn't:
>     \setupoutput[pdf]
>     \loadmapfile[psclean.map]
>     \loadmapfile[/usr/share/texmf/dvips/context/original-public-csr.map]
>     \starttypescript [serif] [computer-modern] [il2]
>       \definefontsynonym [cmb10]    [csb10]    [encoding=il2]
>       \definefontsynonym [cmbsy10]  [csbsy10]  [encoding=il2]
>        ...
>     \stoptypescript
>     \usetypescript[computer-modern][il2]
>     \switchtobodyfont[computer-modern,10pt]
>     \starttext
>     \input tufte
>     \stoptext
> How can I do it?
> 
> I apologize for so many questions. Many thanks for your help.
> Your thankful
> Michal Kvasnicka
> 
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