Re: Ancient Greek

Re: Ancient Greek

[Steffen Wolfrum]

Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it> wrote:

> Download Claudio Beccari's fonts. (cbgreek)



Well, I did download the whole archive (71MB).

I used to install type1 fonts in ConTeXt with ONE afm file and ONE pfb file by executing sudo texfont --fontroot=... --sourcepath=... --vendor=ctan --collection=cbgreek --makepath --install

But what should I do with an archive of 944 pfb files ??? Jesus!



Steffen

Re[2]: Ancient Greek

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Monday, August 23, 2004 Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

> Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it> wrote:

>> Download Claudio Beccari's fonts. (cbgreek)



> Well, I did download the whole archive (71MB).

> I used to install type1 fonts in ConTeXt with ONE afm file
> and ONE pfb file by executing sudo texfont --fontroot=...
> --sourcepath=... --vendor=ctan --collection=cbgreek
> --makepath --install

> But what should I do with an archive of 944 pfb files ??? Jesus!

Is it that big? I can't help you because it comes preinstalled
with MiKTeX and it surely isn't that big ...

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re: Ancient Greek

[Hans Hagen]

Hi Steffen,

>Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it> wrote:
>Download Claudio Beccari's fonts. (cbgreek)
>  
>
>> <>
>> Well, I did download the whole archive (71MB).
>
This the archive is inded very big, and takes some probably unzips in some more MBytes, thereby taking more that 10% of the tex live cd! 

Maybe it makese sense to determine a suitable subset (like the list that GB used to define the cbgreek typescript); also, i wonder if scaling really affects the quality. Are these real type 1's or converted bitmaps? 

Since you're the user who wants greek most, can you make such a list? 

  \showfont[fontname] can be of help ... 

Maybe tex live can benefit from it. 


Hans 

PS. Karl: interesting to keep an eye on in the perspective of keeping tex live within reasonable size.  

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