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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: update mkiv
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:05:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B8D08F.9030806@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070807152851.85lcyl0fz4kcoswc@web.mail.umich.edu>

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Quoting Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:
> 
>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> 
>>> * There is something wrong with typescripts.
>>>
>>> \definetypeface[mainface][rm][serif][charter][default][encoding=texnansi]
>>> \setupbodyfont[mainface,11pt]
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> \input tufte
>>> \stoptext
>> hm, maybe a missing font ... we're open type gyre now
> 
> I am confused. I do not have open type version of charter. I thought 
> that it was still possible to use traditional type 1 fonts with mkiv.

should work, but for the moment wait till luatex is fixed for indexing 
such fonts

btw, mkiv will not use the tfm files but the afm files

> So, how do I use the free bitstream charter that ships with tex 
> distributions? I am using the context standalone distribution and have 
> afm version of charter (bchb8a.afm, bchbi8a.afm, bchr8a.afm, 
> bhcri8a.afm) and the pfb versions of the same fonts. I do not have otf 
> version of charter.

well, in principle we no longer have font encodings, when the afm file 
is found, it will be used and > 256 chars are possible then



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      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-07 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-07  7:55 Hans Hagen
2007-08-07  8:36 ` Roy Zuo
2007-08-07 16:59 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-08-07 17:05   ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-08-07 19:13   ` Hans Hagen
2007-08-07 19:28     ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-08-07 20:05       ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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