Re: installing a true-type font: can't find ttf2afm

[Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@sil.org>]

On 11/5/2013 12:05 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Lars Huttar  wrote:
>> On 11/4/2013 5:32 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>>
>>> Make your choice:
>>>
>>> \definefontfamily [gentium-basic] [serif] [Gentium Basic]
>>> \definefontfamily [gentium-book]  [serif] [Gentium Book Basic]
>>> \definefontfamily [gentium-plus]  [serif] [Gentium Plus]
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> {\switchtobodyfont[gentium-basic]Upright \it Italic \bf Bold \bi BoldItalic}
>>>
>>> {\switchtobodyfont[gentium-book]Upright \it Italic \bf Bold \bi BoldItalic}
>>>
>>> {\switchtobodyfont[gentium-plus]Upright \it Italic \bf Bold \bi BoldItalic}
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>> Thanks for the suggestion.
>> I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but when I try to compile the
>> above with mkiv, I get "Undefined control sequence" on line 1:
>>
>> l.1 \definefontfamily
> As I told you: "there were recent changes/improvements in that".
>
> http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2013/075428.html
>
> You would need the ConTeXt distribution for that, TeX Live 2013 is too
> old. (You can probably still load the simplefonts module explicitly or
> write the typescripts yourself - again different syntax.)
>
> Mojca
>

Thanks again for your responses.

I did try loading the simplefonts module explicitly, but
definefontfamily is still undefined.

I'm working on a large, production project, and the deadline is too
close to risk using unstable releases. Is there a context release since
Wolfgang's new version of simplefonts, that has been declared stable?
Given that his new version came out less than a month ago, it seems
unlikely.

Maybe I can get TTFs working using mtxrun, as Hans suggested. It seems
to be working on Windows; I need to try the same on Linux with our
custom font.

Lars

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