Re: PostScript font access problem

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:13 PM 5/23/2002 +0200, Denis B. Roegel wrote:
>On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:47:32PM +0200, Frans Goddijn wrote:
> > I tried your example and if I leave out the [pos]  all goes well...
> >
> > So I just had \showbodyfont
>
>After some further study, I found
>
>  1) that there are several typos in type-enc.tex, where `uhvro8a'
>     is written as `uhvo8a'; one of these lines was
>
>      \definefontsynonym [ec-uhvo8a]                 [uhvro8t] [encoding=ec]

hm, it's quite hard to figure out the right names, so if you have a better 
list ... let me know (actually, i found out that for instance the texnansi 
tfm's are not complete)

>  2) that I need to add \usetypescript[berry][ec]
>
>Now, when I write
>
>\usetypescript[berry][ec]
>\definefontsynonym [ec-uhvro8a]                 [uhvro8t] [encoding=ec]
>\starttext
>\showbodyfont[pos]
>\stoptext
>
>it works.
>
>It seems not many people are trying PostScript fonts with Karl Berry's names!
>
>Btw, where is it specified that ec is the default encoding?

did you set up your cont-sys.tex file (search for the rme)

adding

   \setupencoding[default=ec]
   \usetypescript[berry][ec]

should do the trick

the berry/ec script sets the free usable tex-live fonts to their berry names

Hans
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