From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29846 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Lucida Bright Font Problem Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:38:15 +0200 Message-ID: <44CE7847.5000400@wxs.nl> References: <6B268FD8-9848-4091-A1A5-83C8A5A0B97C@duke.edu> <44CDCBB2.2080302@elvenkind.com> <44CE1D5F.5080507@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00607311358p4d7f7b8s462249fa9f22b269@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154381978 1521 80.91.229.2 (31 Jul 2006 21:39:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jul 31 23:39:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1G7fT3-00079l-LE for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:38:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0311FCEC; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:38:28 +0200 (CEST) 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 27148-05; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:38:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4DCE1FABE; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:38:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05C61FABE for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:38:14 +0200 (CEST) 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 27150-02-2 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:38:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 91C3A1FAB0 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:38:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 30272 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:38:12 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00607311358p4d7f7b8s462249fa9f22b269@mail.gmail.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: 2.1.7 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:29846 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > But then again I didn't understand how it was possible that so many > people were using lucida without any problems. (And that it was only > me who had problems installing the font - I simply took all the files > from the "LaTeX world" and forgot about using texfont, which caused me > some headaches until now anyway.) > when i started using lucida (many years ago) they came with tfm files (texnansi) abut nowadays i just generate the metrics with texfont because yandy went away tug now sells the fonts, and as a result new metrics for latex were made; i'm not sure with what (afm) files the fonts ship nowadays but i'm not going to change/adapt my local setup (too tricky) to different lucida spacing and metrics; the font metrics zip has them > >> \usetypescript[lucida][\defaultencoding] >> > > Hmmm ... Yesterday I figured out that lucida doesn't support EC (ie. > doens't have enough glyphs to cover Slovenian and Croatian). I guess > that only texnansi is a sensible choice. :( > > (I hoped that empty slots in Hans's manuals were a consequence of > faulty ec.enc files, but now I figured out that the font has indeed > many glhyps missing.) > my impression is that when ec was made nobody cared much about eastern european languages; for some reason the hardly (or once per doc) used copyright and registere symbols were considered to be of more importance, alas ... Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------