From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5232 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: fonts / proposal Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:13:37 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010808111111.0255fde0@server-1> References: <200108061409.QAA29928@plane.elvenkind.com> 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 1035395835 32356 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:57:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:57:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Taco Hoekwater In-Reply-To: <3B6FA974.7DBA7E50@elvenkind.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5232 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5232 At 10:40 AM 8/7/2001 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >siep@elvenkind.com wrote: > > > > What about letting out-of-the-box pdftex and dvips read the same > > mapfiles that they would read outside Context, and letting Context use > > kpsewhich for all its file searching, and that any non-standard > > behaviour would have to be explicitly turned on in a configuration file? > >One way out of this should be create font-name mapping entries for the >new system. the 'fontname' directory in your TeX tree. Then users can >decide for themselves whether or not they want the new-style names. there is indeed a mapping from the long names to the texmf-berry names, but that happens in tex; indeed an alternative is dedicated map files; should be doable for the couple of standard encodings; on the other hand, if we can work out a decent collection of nicely organized map files in the next year, i'm sure that we can convince the tex live people to add them 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------