From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30165 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texfont: installed font only works with pdftex Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:21:29 +0200 Message-ID: <44D9B729.5050109@wxs.nl> References: <1154883237.1057.2.camel@g5.home> <2AC5B68D-6F43-4850-8854-180D7A5EBC06@uni-bonn.de> <44D73F36.5020107@wxs.nl> <44D845D3.4000307@wxs.nl> <44D851AC.90603@elvenkind.com> <44D9017B.7020600@elvenkind.com> <44D9061E.4070503@wxs.nl> <44D908C8.7040308@elvenkind.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 1155118919 10979 80.91.229.2 (9 Aug 2006 10:21:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 09 12:21:59 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 1GAlCD-0007bC-DN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:21:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8D61FE5E; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:21:52 +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 18780-05-5; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:21:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A67F1FE53; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:21:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54D91FE53 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:21:40 +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 18780-05-4 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:21:34 +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 98C8F1FE52 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:21:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 478 for ; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:21:32 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: 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:30165 Archived-At: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > >>> how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non >>> existing ligs into account >>> >> Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this >> tomorrow, >> it is too late for me to do serious work. >> >> > > I've experimented with afm2pl, and as I wrote in an earlier mail: the > beginning of EC.enc with its additional LIGKERN instructions confuses > well, we can consider to let texfont use a ec-fixed encoding for afm2tfm and the regular ec encoding for the rest --afmencoding=ec-fixed or so > it so it will not include default ligatures. If you delete this, it > will work. If you use lm-ec.enc (which has a number of mistakes fixed > anyway), it works. BUT afm2pl needs a file default.lig which is not > present in all TeX distributions. I asked Siep a couple of months > ago, and he replied there was a switch to ignore default.lig, but in > she > that case, the default ligs would have to be supplied by texfont > itself (which should be doable). IMHO, texfont should switch to > afm2pl by default; it's much better at preserving kerning information > (Adam, any thoughts on this?), and it makes virtual fonts > unnecessary. I now use it regularly for all my font needs and am very > satisfied with it. > for a while afm2pl was the default, but then it suddenly defaulted to latex default (em) spacing which ruined a project here because that went unnoticed and resulted in incompatible output, so it made me more careful; i'm not sure to what extend afm2pl uses the same default for the fontdimen related things as afm2tfm 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------