Re: Unicodefonts (Type 1)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:22 PM 8/8/2001 +0200, Tobias Burnus wrote:

>I found this Type-1 Unicode font
>    http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Unicode.html
>which I would like to use with \ConTeXt.
>
>It consists of:
>Caslon (serif font): roman, oblique, bold, black, small-caps (but no 
>bold-oblique)
>Monospace (~courier): roman, oblique, bold [and no-Type-1 bold-oblique]
>Cupola (~~~Informal): Roman, italic, bold, bold-italic, small caps
>Caliban (~helvetica): Roman(?)
>
>How can I use it best? I'd like to use it as complete replacement for CM 
>for some documents, since has a lot of nice characterts.

A type one font needs to be split into chunks [this is how for instance 
chinese is supported] while a truetype can be used as a whole.

You need to make tfm files for each chunk, as well as enc files [lei wang 
is an expert on this, he also made some scripts]. If you can sort this out 
we can see if we can make this process easy since there are more unicode 
fonts around.

there are two ways to proceed:

(1) create standard (say texnansi,ec) subsets,
(2) use uchar mapping, which means something like:

Eumlaut -> uchar{1}{234}

but then we may loose kerning and so,

Hans
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