From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35903 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Use of standard font engines on Linux Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:49:02 +0200 Message-ID: <46BDDA6E.7040308@wxs.nl> References: <200708111014.11818.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186847484 13470 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2007 15:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:51:24 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Aug 11 17:51:21 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJtFH-00034E-F3 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:51:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E7B2031C; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:51:19 +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 13822-01; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:51:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E60F202E8; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:49:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CE2202C7 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:49:08 +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 12235-03-4 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:49:07 +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 ESMTP id 2BD7B202A1 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:49:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 9352 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:49:06 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <200708111014.11818.john@wexfordpress.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: 2.1.9 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:35903 Archived-At: John R. Culleton wrote: > Linux distros have been emphasizing the use of the fonts in fc-cache > across applications. TeX always did its own thing, with tfm files, > mapping files etc. I note that some of the newer TeX products are > using pfb + afm instead of pfb + tfm. Does this presage the > availablity of all the fonts described in the fc-cache files or will > TeX continue to have its own set of fonts? i never looked into fc-cache things (mostly working on windows) pdftex does not use databases, xetex does, and in luatex one can build any kind of font database support; currently in mkiv i just build a database based on osfontdir plus the usual paths; i can support other 'font resources as well' if needed tfm files are very special to tex and not relevant for other apps (apart from the fact that there can be tens of thousands of those metric files) in mkiv there is support for otf/ttf/ttc, afm/pfb (i will implement an alternative loader, the current one is afm driven, but we can also have a pfb driven one) as well as ofm/tfm/ovf/vf metric files there will always be tfm files but new fonts will be open type (lm, gyre, etc) 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________