From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9115 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texfont - install family? Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:45:50 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020830184108.030fb400@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020830003401.03c401a8@server-1> 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 1035399468 767 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:57:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:57:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Bruce D'Arcus" In-Reply-To: <06E9D9D8-BC32-11D6-97BE-0050E4258255@muohio.edu> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9115 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9115 At 12:03 PM 8/30/2002 -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: >On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 06:34 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>At 05:40 PM 8/26/2002 -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: >> >>>Ok, thanks. It seems easier than I thought! And when installing >>>multiple-master fonts, am I to understand texfont invokes mminstance to >>>actually generate the mm instances? If that's the case, then one would need >>>to run texfont for each single instance that one wanted installed? >> >>right, since ther ecna be many alternatives (see type-buy.dat for calls; >>you can make a small batch file with some otional args taking axis > >Sorry for another newbie question (this one on scripting), but... > >Here is what is in the type-buy.dat file for Myriad (which is the font I >am interested in): > ># adobe myriad > >--en=? --so=adobe/myriad --weight=400 --width=600 MyriadMM >--en=? --so=adobe/myriad --weight=700 --width=600 MyriadMM >--en=? --so=adobe/myriad --weight=400 --width=600 MyriadMM-It >--en=? --so=adobe/myriad --weight=700 --width=600 MyriadMM-It > >--en=? --ve=adobe --co=myriad --so=adobe/myriad --ma --in MyriadMM-we* >--en=? --ve=adobe --co=myriad --so=adobe/myriad --ma --in MyriadMM-It-we* > >--en=? --ve=adobe --co=myriad --so=adobe/myriad --sl=* MyriadMM-we* >--en=? --ve=adobe --co=myriad --so=adobe/myriad --ca=* MyriadMM-we* > >Can someone please help me with the batch file (I've never written one), >such that I get these basic fonts (normal and bold, plus the italic), >along with, say, condensed versions of the same (let's say a width value >of 400)? texfont can collect infro from dat files, but in your case you can: (1) copy the files to a path, say d:\fonts\adobe\myriad (2) go to that path (3) say texfont --en=texnansi --co=myriad --ve=adobe --weight=400 --width=600 MyriadMM and alike, so replace the "--en..." and "--so=..." lines by "en/ve/co" ones 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------