Re: Beginnner's question: fumbling with font finding failures.

[Thomas A.Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

Glad you're enjoying your ConTeXt experience. Believe me: it's a great  
macro package, and it will grow on you.

To answer your question:  What you did is basically correct, however,  
there is a tiny mistake in the code in s-mag01.tex. The font  
declaration doesn't work out of the box with a current TeX distribution  
(I have lost track of all the changes in TDS etc. during the last  
months). I used the module a few days ago and meant to write a note to  
Hans, but then forgot. The easiest fix is:
1. Open s-mag-01.tex (which on your box, if you use Gerben Wierda's  
installer, should be in  
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/s-mag-01.tex

2. Locate the lines

\usetypescript
   [palatino][\defaultencoding]

\setupbodyfont
   [palatino,10pt]

3. Just before them, insert this line:
\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding]

4. Save the file and rerun, and you should be in business.

Good luck!

Thomas

On Mar 31, 2005, at 3:48 AM, Paul R Martin wrote:

>
> Dear ConTeXters,
>
> I'm a newcomer to ConTeXt and to this congenial and obviously active  
> list:  please bear with me and read my story. I'll be much more  
> succinct in future.
>
> Last week, I installed TeTex and ConTeXt [Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther"].  
> I'm working my way through the "Excursion" and "This Way/ My Way"  
> documents. They are great documents, ConTeXt is a great  package, and  
> I've had some timely tips from Hans Hagen (Hail thee, Hans!). I've  
> made some good progress. I have learned the difference between a   
> _Hasselter juffer_ and a _Hasselter bitter_, but I'm still not sure  
> what one does with a _foekepot_. I suspect that it's a percussion  
> instrument, but that's beside the point.
>
> I have a history of user-level LaTeX formatting in my distant past.  
> I've mostly been stuck in the dark, ragged, dreary, world of MS Office  
> for the past decade, so you can understand my joy to see beautiful,  
> colourful .pdf pages rolling up my screen, as a result of typing  
> straightforward, comprehensible formatting commands in a plain text  
> ascii file. As my fellow Australians would say: ** You little ripper!  
> **
>
> Now, I've managed to side-step some menacing signs of absent fonts as  
> I progressed. My goals are straightforward (technical documentation  
> and scientific writing), so I've been happy to accept the font  
> fallback/replacement routines. Further, my glimpses into the pages and  
> pages of information about font handling make me think that it's a  
> kind of bad neighbourhood for a person like me to enter, just as it  
> was when TeX and I were young.
>
> But now I've struck the following blockade in my quest to produce a  
> 'My Way' document, which I did by simply
>
> 	1) cutting and pasting the source code from the page 3 of My Way #0  
> [mag-0000.pdf]
> 	2) changing the author name, and
> 	3) saving the resultant text as [mwy-000-Test.tex],  then
> 	4) running the perl "texexec" script on it.
>
> OK, don't snicker, it may not be such a silly thing to try. I'm sure  
> there are other people who might try this kind of approach. Here is  
> the gist of the result -- ellipses mark my deletions.
>
> ------------------------------START---------------------------
>
> [nvri-hayden:~/Documents/ConTEXt/MyWay] paulm% texexec --color --pdf  
> mwy-000-Test
>
>  TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>
> ...
>
> system          : macros of module mag-01 loaded
>
> ...
>
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type- 
> akb.tex)kpathsea: Running mktextfm uplr8t
> mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1;  
> nonstopmode; input uplr8t
> This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>
> kpathsea: Running mktexmf uplr8t
> ! I can't find file `uplr8t'.
> <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t
>
> Please type another input file name
> ! Emergency stop.
> <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t
>
> Transcript written on mfput.log.
> grep: uplr8t.log: No such file or directory
> mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode;  
> input uplr8t' failed to make uplr8t.tfm.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>
> ...
>
> ! Font \*palatino12ptrmtf*:=uplr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric  
> (TFM) file no
> t found.
>
> ...
>
> ---------------------------------------------FINISH-------------------
>
> [etc etc, I think that 'nonstopmode' might have been why this loop  
> continued for the next 120 seconds. BTW I typed 'Q' in response to the  
> input file name request  above].
>
> Now, it's obvious from the ContextGarden that I've probably missed  
> some step in font configuration. But when I start to look in the  
> numerous sources of advice, I strike the usual frustration. There are  
> lots of statements (lots and lots of 'em!) about checking and  
> un-commenting and configuring, but I can find no list of *prioritised*  
> things for beginners to try, in the order which they should be tried,  
> in order to solve what looks to be a simple and typical problem.  
> Without such a set of instructions, I'm loath to change anything in my  
> configuration, for fear that the cure might be worse than the disease.
>
> I'd love to try to understand the source of the error, and how to  
> handle fonts professionally, and lots of other things as well. But I'm  
> a busy scientist with many other commitments. As long as ConText is  
> working I'm happy, but  I can't devote much time to delving into  
> errors. So I may not be a typical participant in this list. But if you  
> help me,  you will help to make ConTeXt more accessible to others like  
> me, and this will be good for the cause, _nes pas?_  I'd be happy to  
> write a my way document or contribute a Wiki page on this topic to  
> encapsulate any good advice for myself and other neophytes.
>
> Yours,
>
> P.
>
> Paul R Martin
> National Vision Research Institute of Australia
> Tel: +613 9349 7481
> prmartin@unimelb.edu.au
>
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