Re: first steps

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>  >>  Here's a minimal example for Hans & Taco:
>>  >>
>>  >>  \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr]
>>  >>
>>  >> \usetypescript[palatino]
>>  >>  \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt]
>>  >>  \starttext
>>  >>  ab\ccaron
>>  >>  \stoptext
>>
>>  i cannot reproduce the crash/problems on my machine
> 
> One needs to delete afm files (without using Taco's latest patch).
> 
>>  > The output of XeTeX is to be expected, but I don't know why the map
>>  > file is loaded at all.
>>
>>  you mean that for xetex map files are loaded? if we can assumt that
>>  xetex users use open type fonts we can avoid that (at some point we can
>>  drop transition from type1/otf)
> 
> Sure. But there is one thing that I don't understand and needs to be
> resolved even before adding NEWTEX on top of type-gyr. Why are the
> Type 1 fonts used at all? If I say \usetyscript[postscript] (no
> [ec]!!!), why do I get the Type 1 fonts instead of OpenType? Shouldn't
> a couple of additional definitions with ec/texnansi encoding be rather
> harmless (i.e. should not influence OpenType fonts)?

we use names like TimesRomen-Bold internally and type-gyr maps to pfb 
variants and since it is loaded *after* the otf definitions it wins

Hans

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