From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7743 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font problems (special characters, URW) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:23:41 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020421012203.03c740e8@212.45.58.16> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398189 21843 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:36:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Ville Voipio In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7743 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7743 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------