From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43156 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font problems with latest minimals on Linux Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:19:18 +0200 Message-ID: <48A30986.9080605@wxs.nl> References: <48A2908E.6020408@elvenkind.com> <48A2C384.6020808@wxs.nl> <115224fb0808130646q6249467eo94348a48c26047d4@mail.gmail.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: ger.gmane.org 1218644443 6844 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2008 16:20:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users , Taco Hoekwater To: gaburici@cs.umd.edu Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 13 18:21:34 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 1KTJ6L-0000Xi-9P for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:21:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D211FE4F; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:20:30 +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 20968-06; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:20:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3FC1FC84; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:20:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AE01FC84 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:19:58 +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 23590-02-3 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:19:21 +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 7F7AB1FC5A for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:19:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 11772-1840426 for multiple; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:19:19 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 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:43156 Archived-At: Vasile Gaburici wrote: > Before I get anymore strawman arguments, here's the definitive experiment: > > $ ls -U1 /usr/share/fonts/vista/ | grep erda > Verdanai.ttf > Verdana.ttf > Verdanaz.ttf > Verdanab.ttf > > $ ls -U1 /xp/wtf/ > Verdana.ttf > Verdanab.ttf > Verdanai.ttf > Verdanaz.ttf did you test the latest beta (this afternoon version?) > XeTeX solves this problem by using *only* the ID 16 and ID 17 OpenType > values to create a unique name for system fonts. I actually filed a > bug about lack of support for the common ID 1/2 names, but Johnathan > WONTFIXED it because he really wants the font names to be unambiguous, > and using ID 1 and ID 2 values in addition to ID 16/17 doesn't > guarantee that. Your situation is worse, because you want to support > all sort of legacy fonts in that single hashtable. part of the problem was that the mtx-font lookup (shown by list) differed from the one used in practice (in tex); this is now harmonized (and seems to be ok on taco's and my machine) > Anyway, I've wasted enough of my time on this matter. If you sill > don't grok it, forget about it. you don't want to know how much time we spent on fonts so far -) > BTW, the Lua 5.1 "reference" manual is a joke. How do you printf a > boolean? What's the syntax for their definitely non-standard regexps. they are not regexps but just expressions; being a lightweight language lua does not have regexp (as the manual states: it would add more code than lua itself; however, there is lpeg (also in luatex) which is not only more poweeful than regexp but also is efficient wrt the implementation 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________