From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5201 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: fonts / proposal Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:29:14 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010806102656.02ad6250@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20010803170815.029564c0@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20010803170815.029564c0@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395805 32036 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:56:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Giuseppe Bilotta In-Reply-To: <161016672.20010803220612@bigfoot.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5201 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5201 At 10:06 PM 8/3/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >Friday, August 03, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote: > >HH> Hi, > >HH> I'm currently working on fonts, not so much in context itself, as well as >HH> installation. Since i want a clean way to install fonts [commercial ones >HH> for instance] and since licence policy is always tricky, i now put >them in >HH> a dedicated tree texmf-fonts. > >I think the TeX Directory Standard puts fonts under > >\texmf\fonts\\\\ > >e.g. > >\texmf\fonts\type1\public\ams\cmr > >or something of the sort. right, and since i like to delete and reinstall the base path's i don't want my own fonts or patches there -) I think the (only) problem with this is that it fails on pure DOS >system (8.3 naming constrictions). Since the font naming is X >Windows-like, why don't you just use the X Windows scheme? right, in which case one can use filemapping to map back on 8 char names for which i provide \usetypescript [map][berry] >I don't find any objections. The recursive fontsynonym technique >also allows for automagic font substitutions: if >ec-uplr8a-slanted-167 is not available, it can be mapped to the >closer available font (e.g. removing the 167, which would seek >for a "default" slanted font, then removing the "slanted" etc; >something like using a * in a fontname part under X Windows). right, can even be automated, Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------