From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/67123 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: (RSFS) font installation Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:04:50 +0100 Message-ID: <4D832E42.5010807@wxs.nl> References: <4D80C291.5090707@gmx.de> <4D81CECD.5020405@gmx.de> <4D823CA6.6060404@gmx.de> <20110318032710.GB7791@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300442710 2994 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2011 10:05:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:05:10 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Mar 18 11:05:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0WYK-0003Ng-Is for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:05:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF55CAAEF; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:05:00 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id d70VD2fuC7vk; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:04:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4F9CAAD9; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:04:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D57CAAD9 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:04:57 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 2yrZMnoZ+6oT for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:04:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FEF1CAAD6 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:04:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p2IA4wtB022114 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:04:58 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.1c2) with ESMTP id 9283-1713362 for multiple; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:04:53 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 In-Reply-To: <20110318032710.GB7791@khaled-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0eEky4WSk - 5dbb1b565935 - 20110318 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:67123 Archived-At: On 18-3-2011 4:27, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> But it might not be a bad idea for LuaTeX to automatically perform a >> pfm2afm conversion and cache the converted files when necessary, and >> probably not that hard to code. On the other hand, Type 1 fonts are >> legacy at this point, so it might not be worth it. > > LuaTeX can load afm files thanks to the embedded, fontforge derived, > font loader, but AFAIK it does not handle pfm files at all. > > Hans considers type1 fonts obsolete (and I agree with him :)) and he is > unlikely to put much effort into supporting them. Indeed. I kicked out the last encoding related code a while ago. Also, I only consider a type 1 font okay when it has both an afm and a pfb file and mkiv can handle that quite well (even beyond the regular tex encodings). Personally I need it for fonts that I have bought and don't want to buy again. 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