From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12330 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Metafont and Context Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:17:07 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030521141420.026b02c0@server-1> References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053521090 10708 80.91.224.249 (21 May 2003 12:44:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 12:44:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed May 21 14:44:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ISxc-0002mT-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 14:44:48 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 807D310B31; Wed, 21 May 2003 14:46:38 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E25510B21 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 14:31:29 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.9/SQL-8.12.9-10/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h4LCVLnE015262 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 14:31:21 +0200 Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h4LCVN0g032105 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 14:31:24 +0200 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20030520161000.5b04b548.wmcclain@salamander.com> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12330 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12330 At 16:10 20/05/2003 -0500, you wrote: >On Sun, 18 May 2003 22:40:48 +0200 >"Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" wrote: > > > > > Has anybody written typescripts for one of the Metafonts available > > > > at CTAN and can send me an example or two? > >I've added a Metafont example to my page: > > http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#newfont-mf > >I don't know much about Metafont, and your comments (as always) are >welcome. > >In particular, I have two questions: > >(1) I don't specify encoding, because I'm not sure how encoding >interacts with MF. Is it even required? The typescript works without >encoding references. depends on the font, from the perspective of tex only the tfm matters (not the pk/pfb/ttf); the only tricky thing with mf files is that you may need to generate a lot of sizes >(2) texexec + pdftex do not generate .pk files like xdvi does. Is that >an option I've missed? In the example I give I first create a .dvi >version of the file and have xdvi create the .pk files, which then can >be read by pdftex. this depends on your pdftex configuration; pdftex can handle pfb/ttf, pk, and (from past times) glyph containers 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------