From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8112 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: RE: font tryout Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:43:36 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020603154226.02bbac80@server-1> References: 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 1035398545 24866 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:42:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:42:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Ville Voipio" , Original-To: "Kris Hermans" In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8112 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8112 At 03:26 PM 6/3/2002 +0200, Kris Hermans wrote: >Hi, > >I experimented a little further with installation of the urw fonts, still >without results. I can only confirm the results of Ville Voipio. > >As it looks now, the ConTeXt + MikTeX combination seems pretty useless as >far as fonts are concerned, and It would be great if someone could >investigate the problems. I would be happy to help as much as I can and to >contribute with testing. > >Is there anybody out there who has successfully installed third-party fonts >with MikTeX and used them within ConTeXt? > >If these font problems persist to frustrate me, I'm forced to: > >- either switch to another TeX distribution on Windows, can somebody advise >me a package that installs easily, WITH a variety of fonts? Open Source is >preferred ... > >- or switch to another macro package (LaTeX), but I think this is a shame as >I like the ConTeXt philosophy. Does miktex come with the normal texmf (tex live) fonts? If so, doesn't \setupencoding[default=ec] \usetypescript [berry] [ec] \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt] some text in times work? 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------