Fonts: Minimals v. Texlive 2007

Fonts: Minimals v. Texlive 2007

[Erich R Fickel]

Thanks to everyone who helped me get the minimals installed.

I am having a little trouble. At my home computer, I have the Context 
installation for Ubuntu 7.04 from the sanjoy tex-live backports. At work 
I now have the minimals, --context=current, not beta. I expected that 
the output of these two systems would be nearly identical. They are not.

I do not use any special font handling. I let Context handle it all. I 
use whatever the default fonts are, and use \setupbodyfont only to set 
fontsize. The same source run on both machines produces slightly 
different margins and slightly different font sizes. The minimals are 
smaller (shorter) for the same font size (11 pt). I really would like to 
get the same output for both systems.

Can anyone help with this?

-Erich Fickel
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Re: Fonts: Minimals v. Texlive 2007

[Taco Hoekwater]

Erich R Fickel wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who helped me get the minimals installed.
> 
> I am having a little trouble. At my home computer, I have the Context 
> installation for Ubuntu 7.04 from the sanjoy tex-live backports. At work 
> I now have the minimals, --context=current, not beta. I expected that 
> the output of these two systems would be nearly identical. They are not.
> 
> I do not use any special font handling. I let Context handle it all. I 
> use whatever the default fonts are, and use \setupbodyfont only to set 
> fontsize. The same source run on both machines produces slightly 
> different margins and slightly different font sizes. The minimals are 
> smaller (shorter) for the same font size (11 pt). I really would like to 
> get the same output for both systems.
> 
> Can anyone help with this?

Is it a letter vs A4 thing perhaps?

Best wishes,
Taco


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Re: Fonts: Minimals v. Texlive 2007

[Erich R Fickel]

 > Taco Hoekwater wrote:
 >
> Is it a letter vs A4 thing perhaps?

No. It is not letter vs. A4. Paper sizing is setup and letter is being 
used. I tried to attach a couple of PDF samples, but the list said the 
files were too big.

Does anyone have someplace I could upload the samples for review by the 
experts. I made them on the same machine, using the same source, once 
with the texlive-2007 install and once with the minimals install.

-Erich
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Re: Fonts: Minimals v. Texlive 2007

[Hans Hagen]

Erich R Fickel wrote:
>  > Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>  >
>> Is it a letter vs A4 thing perhaps?
> 
> No. It is not letter vs. A4. Paper sizing is setup and letter is being 
> used. I tried to attach a couple of PDF samples, but the list said the 
> files were too big.

can you compare the fonts being used ... metrics may be different

Hans

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