From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47052 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: installing fonts pdftex Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:35:26 +0100 Message-ID: <4B419D05-BE4C-41F9-8B4E-5CAE1E5F079C@uni-bonn.de> References: <497E4731.5040902@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233056236 28354 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2009 11:37:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:37:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: Mohamed Bana Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jan 27 12:38:28 2009 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 1LRmGy-0003BI-Hu for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:38:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE5D1FBCB; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:37:07 +0100 (CET) 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 19251-01; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:36:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76E41FBB9; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:36:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01DB71FBB9 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:36:05 +0100 (CET) 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 19228-01-4 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:35:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (filter1-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F02F91FBB5 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:35:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.113]) by filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0RBZQrf011239 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:35:27 +0100 Original-Received: from homer.philologie.uni-bonn.de ([131.220.89.142] verified) by fe2.uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.14) with ESMTP id 10746015; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:35:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <497E4731.5040902@cs.ucl.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=131.220.15.113; country=DE; region=07; city=Bonn; latitude=50.7333; longitude=7.1000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.7333,7.1000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 171038217 - 4531a56be300 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.152 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:47052 Archived-At: On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Mohamed Bana wrote: > Hi Thomas, > Hi, please address questions to the mailing-list, not to me personally. > 1. when is the last time you tried to install a font manually using > texfont? i've been trying to get install warnockpro and cronospro - > both of which are .otf - but i've had no lack. > > texfont --makepath --install --fontroot=`pwd` --vendor=adobe -- > co=warnockpro --en=texnansi --lcdf --preproc -- > variant=liga,kern,smcp,onum > > the last time i checked texfont was generating an empty map file. texfont is really old, it predates opentype fonts, so you can't expect it to handle such fonts. It was a brave and wonderful effort to automate installation of fonts, but I gave up using it - not because texfont itself is bad, but because so many fonts are just faulty and/ or idiosyncratic, and automatization just can't handle all these eceptions. I always had to double-check and edit files by hand, so I decided to go for a manual process. The --lcdf switch was added by Adam Lindsay, who also wrote a short article about otf and ConTeXt: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/lindsay/lindsay.pdf Too bad Adam isn't active anymore, he was a great help in ConTeXt development. If you search the mailing list archive for "texfont lcdf," you will see that the problem with the empty map file is common and was never really solved, AFAIK. So you have several options: 1. install the fonts manually 2. use texfont and write the map file manually 3. try Patrick's otfinst http://wiki.contextgarden.net/otfinst 4. I have a set of support files for using Cronos and Warnock with pdftex; if you want, I can make a zip and send them to you (not before Thursday, however). > > > the free version of lucida (.ttf) that ship with Java files worked > fine > > 2. is there someone i must do to get to dashes working properly? as > in, --- doesn't generate the right dash nor does --. These are defined as ligatures in the tfm/vf files. Doesn't texfont produce vpl-files as an intermediate format? You could open those and check whether the ligature is defined. It probably isn't, and then you have to hunt down the reason or add it manually... 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