From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Most portable font name
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB61905.8070506@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120518062018.GA11665@phlegethon>
On 18-5-2012 08:20, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> On 2012-05-18 00:00, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 17-5-2012 16:11, Philipp Gesang wrote:
>>
>>> So I judged that my preferred choice might not be as good as I
>>> think. I got cold feet and am about to remove the slide where I
>>> recommend the PS name (I can do that later anyways). Is there --
>>> apart from personal opinions -- some valid reason to prefer one
>>> name over the other *in general*?
>>
>> For a project that has to run for a long time, I prefer filenames
>> (file:). When fonts are stable names can be used too and the name
>> resolved will check several names in the font. Spaces are ignored
>> and names are lowercases. There's also some fallback name
>> construction going on. Anyhow, the biggest problem is with fonts
>> that have the same names (but different files).
>
> I see. But even the filename can be treacherous: afair there is a
> times.ttf among the MS core fonts but it’s different from the one
> shipped with their office tools. The font name guessing, otoh,
> seems pretty elaborate, though I have not had the opportunity to
> look at it in detail.
I always put such fonts in tex/texmf-fonts/fonts/data so that I'm sure
what gets used.
Hans
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-17 14:11 Philipp Gesang
2012-05-17 22:00 ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-17 22:16 ` Bill Meahan
2012-05-17 22:22 ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-18 6:20 ` Philipp Gesang
2012-05-18 9:40 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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