From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6710 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: another example of fonts (pk files not found) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:07:56 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020128120703.03d92008@server-1> References: <3C535117.2020403@gmx.net> 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 1035397225 13036 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:20:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Ulbrich , ntg-context Original-To: Bill McClain In-Reply-To: <3C540B0D.EEB41BF8@salamander.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6710 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6710 At 08:13 AM 1/27/2002 -0600, Bill McClain wrote: >I've just started experimenting with truetype files. pdftexman.pdf shows >that they can be referenced in a map file just like type1 fonts, using >xxx.ttf for the outline file name instead of xxx.pfb. You have to >generate a tfm file, of course. This works, but the letter spacing is >wrong for the samples I've tried, so I need to investigate more. there is ttf2afm but i'm not sure how complete the afm's will be >There has been talk of a FAQ recently. Somewhat presumptuously, I am >workining on a context/pdftex help page, which will serve merely to help >beginners like me over some of the problems I have encountered while >learning tex and context. Font definition and selection will be a big >section. sounds good 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-pod.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------