From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: installing a true-type font: can't find ttf2afm
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:25:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <527A7B7B.9080609@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52793F24.3070804@sil.org>
On 11/5/2013 7:55 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
> On 11/4/2013 4:56 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 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.
>> That TTF should work as well. The only difference is that you might
>> need slightly different commands to set it up (there were recent
>> changes/improvements in that, other users should tell you how exactly
>> that can be done).
>
> I will look for that, because it turns out that I still need to use a
> TTF font. Gentium Plus does not include bold and bold-italic weights,
> and Gentium Basic doesn't include all the characters ranges I need. We
> have a customized version of Gentium Basic with bold weight, with an
> extra character added, and it's a TTF. We had it working with mkii but
> not yet with mkiv.
in that case yoiu can put the fonts somewhere and write a typescript ..
see type-imp-mscore.mkiv for exmaples ... that way you have complete
control over what gets loaded
Hans
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-04 19:55 Lars Huttar
2013-11-04 20:34 ` Mojca Miklavec
2013-11-04 21:46 ` Lars Huttar
2013-11-04 21:54 ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-04 21:56 ` Mojca Miklavec
2013-11-04 22:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-11-05 16:08 ` Lars Huttar
2013-11-05 17:05 ` Mojca Miklavec
2013-11-05 18:25 ` Lars Huttar
2013-11-05 23:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-11-05 18:55 ` Lars Huttar
2013-11-06 17:25 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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