From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5202 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: fonts / proposal Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:38:08 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010806103249.02acead0@server-1> References: <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 1035395806 32048 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:56:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: siepo@cybercomm.nl In-Reply-To: <20010804112730.3DCEA23167@client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5202 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5202 At 12:30 PM 8/4/2001 +0000, siepo@cybercomm.nl wrote: > > (5) typescript files will mape symbolic names in an efficient way > >What do you mean by efficient? say \usetypescript [palatino] [ec] and \usetypescript [times] [ec[ and then use \palatino and \times to swhich between font collections. Also, to be able to combine predefined typescripts. > > (6) map files will be loaded at run time [when enabled] > >What do you mean by this? that, instead of editing the pdftex.map file, context will instruct pdftex to load the map files needed. >Is there going to be LaTeX support? The current tools and texmf tree is rather tuned for latex. I think latex users are already served by fontinst and all those fd files. Bu >How would your scripts handle `real' oldstyle figure and small caps >fonts and expert sets? The character sets of these don't seem to be >entirely standardized. I think that was the reason why I needed >low-level fontinst macros to use my Times OSF&SC fonts even though I had >expected the high-level latinfamily fontinst macro to generate the vfs >and tfms that I wanted. right, and i think in this respect fontinst is more powerful; the thing that i have in mind are for users (like me) who have not the faintest idea about what font tricks can be done. in a later stage i will certainly look into expert fonts and alike [maybe taco wants to extend afm2tfm a bit for this], and there i definitely need your expertise in the font field -) 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------