From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Ambitious project (Font Folio)
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:38:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B51BE2.1060907@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68bfdc900903090559w15464771n6cf70100324b8e8a@mail.gmail.com>
Yue Wang wrote:
> There are also LinoType, MonoType and ITC pack installed on my machine.
> So there are thousands and thousands fonts there.
> Without an automatic font selecting mechanism / script, it will be
> very difficulty to do that.
>
> ConTeXt's font naming mechanism is very different with commercial
> fonts. digital fonts themselves have their own distinct naming
> conventions. For example, Frutiger's fonts use numbers to define the
> weight/style of the font family.
not only names of files, but also internal names are often inconsistent
which is why in mkiv every lookup is kind of normalized; another problem
is that there can be several weights (sets)
but some kind of structured approach (database, preview, etc) can b ehandy
Hans
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2009-03-09 12:30 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2009-03-09 12:59 ` Yue Wang
2009-03-09 13:36 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-09 13:38 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2009-03-09 14:01 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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