Re: MKIV, fonts, confusion

[Mohamed Bana <mbana.lists@googlemail.com>]

if you don't require anything completex 
http://github.com/contextgarden/otfinstall/tree/master automates a lot 
of the tasks required in installing a font in mkii.

afsmith wrote:
> Luigi, Hans, and Wolfgang, thank you for your responses. I'm still
> unclear on several things. (comments on your responses follow
> afterwards)
> 
> Let me try asking these things as questions. Specifically, could
> someone please tell me...
> 1. How do I determine whether I am using MKII, MKIV, or XeTeX to
> process my documents?

I tend to use

\begin{XETEX,OLDTEX,LUATEX}
...
\end{XETEX,OLDTEX,LUATEX}

> 2. Given the line from a typescript...
> \definefontsynonym[LiberationSerif] [name:liberationserif]
> ... how do I determine which file "name:liberationserif" corresponds to?
> 3. In both MKII and MKIV, how can I determine which typescripts exist?
> In other words, how do I determine working arguments for
> "\usetypescriptfile"?
> 3b. Specifically, in the case of...
> \usetypescript[palatino][ec]
> ... in which typescript is this defined? (given a vanilla context
> minimals installation)
> 4. What defines the output of "fc-list" or "mtxrun --script fonts
> --list"? Do they correspond to files? Type synonyms? etc.

fc-list also looks in $HOME/.fonts/

> 5. Do I need to bother with map files for MKII?
> 6. Is it particularly recommended that I use MKIV? How stable is it
> compared to MKII?
> 
> Luigi, what do you mean by "and look into base/*"? Which 'base'? Are
> you talking about in the context minimals distribution? some specific
> online repository? I have seen the two documents you mentioned.
> Re-reading them has clarified things a little bit.
> 
> Wolfgang,
> Currently the module you linked to
> (http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/simplefonts/) is beyond my
> understanding... I would first like to understand the mechanism your
> module operates on before trying to automate it.
> 
> Hans,
> I am aware that there are such types of parameters that must be
> defined for fonts. I understand 'it is complicated' but this does not
> really help make things clearer to me. The inner workings of fonts are
> of little concern to me to me at the moment. Right now I do not even
> know where to look. I have seen the examples you gave for palatino,
> such as...
> \usetypescript[palatino][ec]
> ...but I have no idea where those arguments come from
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> On 5/13/09, afsmith <adventurecomplete@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>> What I would like to do is use the full range of TeX-Gyre fonts (and
>> later possibly others) for my existing documents.
>> It is not clear to me...
>> Whether or not I am using MKIV, nor how to determine which engine I am
>> running.
>> If not running MKIV/XeTeX, how to determine which fonts are installed.
>> What the items from the output of "fc-list" or "mtxrun --script fonts
>> --list" correspond to.
>> How to use available fonts, nor where to draw valid parameters from
>> for use in font commands.
>> How to determine what font configurations are available for a given font.
>> Whether I need to write typescripts, nor how to find any existing ones.
>> Whether I need to concern myself with .map or any other font files.
>> Whether I need to configure anything, move any files, etcetera.
>> ...As well as anything else I might need to install or use a font
>>
>> For what it's worth, I have been using the command "texexec" to
>> process my tex files, am using a context minimals downloaded about two
>> months ago, and am running Linux.
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