Re: font tryout

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:20 PM 6/4/2002 +0100, John Devereux wrote:
>Hi Hans, everyone. I hope you don't mind if I add on a question of my
>own here.
>
>
>* Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:
>
>
> > \setupencoding[default=ec]
> > \usetypescript [berry] [ec]
> >
> > \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt]
> >
> > some text in times
>
>That's the first time I have succeeded in getting any font other
>than computer modern! Thanks.
>
>The above comes out using the URW fonts. If I use dvips -Ppdf on the
>DVI file, they get included into the PDF file.  What I want to do is
>use the fonts *built into* Acrobat. That way, the file size will be
>smaller.
>
>In latex, for example, I did this using the txfonts package:
>
>\usepackage{txfonts}

\usetypescript[times][ec] \setupbodyfont[times]

will give you tx etc, same for palatino

>This ended up with everything in Times-Roman, which did not get
>embedded so the file size was minimal.
>
>Could you tell me how to do this with ConTeXt? I don't know enough to
>be able to tell if this is really a Context question, but any pointers
>would be appreciated.

embedding is controlled by the pdftex map files; i strongly suggest to 
always embed the fonts, since metrics may vary (search for mails from 
george white and nelson beebe on th epdftex list for explanations).

>Also, what is the a direct way to specify a font, (by filename?), without
>using all the Context font infrastructure which I do not understand yet.
>
>For example,
>
>..
>\usethisfontrightnow[utmr8a]
>Stuff in Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular

\definefont[thisfont][utmr8a at 137pt]

even better:

\usetypescript [serif] [times] [ec]

\definefont[thisfont][Times-Roman] \thisfont ...

that way you also get the encoding related thinsg right

(optionally you can define the interlinespacing)

Hans
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