Re: font problems with new beta

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:41 PM 8/20/2001 -0700, David Arnold wrote:
>All,
>
>I haven't been following closely the new font developments, so I am a bit
>behind (A miktex user). This file:
>
>%output=pdf
>\starttext
>  \setupbodyfont[lbr,10pt]
>Hello, mama!
>\stoptext
>
>Which compiled fine with my old Context (I've just installed the latest
>beta), gives this error:
>
>(F:\Miktex\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex))makemf --verbose LucidaBright
>cannot find LucidaBright source file.
>hbf2gf -q -g LucidaBright 300
>MAKETFM: don't know how to make LucidaBright

I used to predefine some font names, but now do so at runtime, depending on 
usage an dencoding [keep in mind that there is more than english, so some 
users may want to default to ec, il2, pl0, cyr, or whatever encoding]. You 
set up the encoding in cont-sys.tex (it may be worth to take a look in 
cont-sys.rme)

\setupencoding[default=texnansi]

This setup determines what typescript will be chosen, and for texnansi, i 
didn't yet set up the ec one (which is default). So, there is a typescript 
that maps lucida on the natural names, but this may eventually even change 
into prefixed names, but i lost the original lucida files [that is, they 
must be somewhere on an old floppy] and only have texnansi encoded ones.

if you take a look at the type-* files, you can get an idea on how things 
are selected; these methods permit simple definition files [typescripts] 
with many encodings without ending up in thousands of tex files for fonts

btw, the idea is that either you load the associated map files manually 
[probbaly happens now] or let context/pdftex do so. i already discussed the 
sometimes fuzzy map file handling with thanh and when he's back in vietnam 
he will look into these issues.

Hans
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