From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/76271 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Most portable font name Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:21 +0200 Message-ID: <4FB61905.8070506@wxs.nl> References: <20120517141158.GD8659@phlegethon> <4FB574E3.3070908@wxs.nl> <20120518062018.GA11665@phlegethon> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337334044 12436 80.91.229.3 (18 May 2012 09:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 09:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 18 11:40:43 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SVJfv-0007uk-1q for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46537101E8; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ILtcEvzzTj+I; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198DE101E2; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1806B101E2 for ; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qdXH3NP3rjXt for ; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5647B101DF for ; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q4I9eYvJ012505 for ; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:35 +0200 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 5.3h2) with ESMTP (TLS) id 1816-1713362 for ; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:40:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20120518062018.GA11665@phlegethon> 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=03; city=Hattem; latitude=52.4724; longitude=6.0696; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.4724,6.0696&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0QHblEzo0 - 18352f95d94a - 20120518 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 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:76271 Archived-At: 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=92s 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________