Re: Font problems (special characters, URW)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:24 AM 4/19/2002 +0300, you wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I have a working TeX installation, everything seems to work fine with
>LaTeX. However, I have some font problems with ConTeXt:
>
>1. When I use local special characters (ä, "a, a-umlaut), they do not
>print with the CM font. texexec complains about missing letters. However,
>LaTeX handles them well (apart from using Type 3 fonts). The fonts in the
>PDF file created by ConTeXt are otherwise ok, type 1 fonts are in used.
>What is the missing spell I have forgotten from my file?
>
>2. Actually, I would like to use Times/Helvetica and other Base14 fonts
>instead of CM. When I try to do this, texexec complains about missing font
>files. I do not have the real Adobe fonts (poor as I am) but I do have the
>URW fonts installed instead in the /texmf/ tree. How can I use them in
>ConTeXt?
>
>
>My environment is Windows NT, and I use MiKTeX 2.10 (full install).

you should be able to use the bunch of free fonts that comes with tex live 
without problems; these contain times, and helvetica alternatives

does \setupbodyfont[ber,pos] work on your machine?

Hans

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