From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/85092 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: installing a true-type font: can't find ttf2afm Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:54:24 +0100 Message-ID: <52781790.5080506@wxs.nl> References: <5277FBB4.4080107@sil.org> <527815CB.2040808@sil.org> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383602068 26549 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2013 21:54:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 21:54:28 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 04 22:54:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VdS6T-0004r7-Ey for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:54:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B21C1021D; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 22:54:32 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id fUE5BUuIJksP; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 22:54:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BB6101EF; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 22:54:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B452101EF for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 22:54:28 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 96IIIbZjSHag for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 22:54:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (filter4-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.72]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409E4101E5 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 22:54:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id rA4M0Vn6030549 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 23:00:32 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.104; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.3c2) with ESMTP id 13019-1713362 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:54:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 In-Reply-To: <527815CB.2040808@sil.org> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=15; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 01KJy0vhc - 9c0f26359b48 - 20131104 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.72 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:85092 Archived-At: On 11/4/2013 10:46 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: > On 11/4/2013 3:34 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> - you can find Gentium at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/gentium-tug (also in >> TeX Live and in the ConTeXt distribution) > > Thank you ... that was key information I didn't have. > I was instead downloading the TTF files from sil.org. > >> - Gentium works out-of-the-box in ConTeXt (see the documentation of >> gentium-tug) > > When you say "out of the box", I think you're referring to the > gentium-tug package box, not the ConTeXt box... in other words, I should > not expect Gentium to work just because I installed ConTeXt; I have to > also install gentium-tug, right? > If not, I must be doing something wrong because I can't find Gentium in > the luatex-cache font database. Did you run (file database) mtxrun --generate normally the font database is regenerated automatically when needed. >>> This is under TeX Live 2013, the context scheme, and I've been using >>> ConTeXt mkiv. >> So why bother about pdfTeX? > > Only because the latest instructions I could find said to use texfont, > which uses ttf2afm, which was missing and I thought it might come from > pdfTeX. I'm glad to know I don't have to, and I'll update that wiki page > accordingly. It was (is?) part of the pdftex suite because pdftex can embed a ttf font even if type-1 variant afm/tfm files are used. The main purpose of texfont was to make type 1 fonts ready for tex (by generating tfm files). In the meantime the lm/gust project provide the files needed for the most relevant fonts, but for other (like commercial) fonts you still need to generate tfm's of course. Anyhow, as Mojca pointed out: there is no need for this in mkiv (luatex). One can still use type one fonts or course but nothing special is needed for that as context will treat them as wide fonts. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________