From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39351 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Two questions about use of system ttf fonts Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:06:30 +0100 Message-ID: <47CAA656.5080609@wxs.nl> References: <87r6evztpb.fsf@indiscrete.org> <47C83C87.7000707@wxs.nl> <87skzaxy5y.fsf@indiscrete.org> 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: ger.gmane.org 1204463309 29392 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2008 13:08:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 13:08:29 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Mar 02 14:08:54 2008 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 1JVnvx-0001jH-Sh for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:08:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C5D1FB57; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:08:19 +0100 (CET) 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 04028-03-3; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:07:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26A21FB6D; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:07:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC711FB57 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:07:36 +0100 (CET) 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 02824-03-10 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:07:02 +0100 (CET) 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 57FDC1FB6D for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:07:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 2673 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:07:02 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <87skzaxy5y.fsf@indiscrete.org> 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:39351 Archived-At: Eythan Weg wrote: > Hans Hagen > Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:10:31 +0100 > > Eythan Weg wrote: > > > What does context need to find the font? > > mtxrun --script font --reload > > will generate a font database which will provide access by name > > Hans > > I created the table as suggested above and in the file names.tma appears a > line line like: > > ["caliban"]={ "ttf", "Caliban", "Caliban.ttf", false }, > > I thought one might use > > \font\test=caliban at 12pt > > but this fails: > > Font \test=caliban at 12pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad. weird, smells like a bug (i need to look into it) 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________