From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19489 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas A.Schmitz Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Beginnner's question: fumbling with font finding failures. 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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 > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >