Re: Two newbie questions about Texfont

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Harrie Frericks wrote:
> Now that I finally have Context running I'm trying to install a number of
> type1 fonts. I've read the Texfont manual, but I couldn't find answers to
> these questions:
> 1. Can Texfont recursively process a font tree?
> 
> I have a directory font tree like this:
> 
> c:\fonts\type1\font-family1
> c:\fonts\type1\font-family2
> c:\fonts\type1\font-family3
> 
> each font-family subdirectory has a number of .afm files. If I set
> --sourcepath to c:\fonts\type1 can Texfont recurse all the subdirectories of
> the font families and locate and process the .afm files?
> 
> 
> 2. Can Texfont handle .afm files with extensions in uppercase?
> 
> Most of my type1 font files are in uppercase like: XYZ_____.AFM   I can only
> get Texfont to process these files if I first rename them to lowercase, like
> XYZ_____.AFM

since you're new to context you can consider skipping pdftex and moving 
on to either xetex or luatex (which uses context mkiv)

for luatex/mkiv you don't need to mess around with fonts as this combo 
directly handles afm/pfb files so there is no need for creating tfm metrics

Hans


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