Re: Fourier in ConTeXt (was Fonts readily available in Context)

["Yue Wang" <yuleopen@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Mikael Persson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mojca Miklavec
>>> <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Mikael Persson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Mojca, does it work both in mkii and mkiv for you?
>>>>
>>>> I only tested in mkii so far (I suspect that mkiv suffers from the
>>>> lack of Utopia in proper format, so one would need to check
>>>> typescripts).
>>>>
>>>> Mojca
>>>
>>> Thank you Mojca for your help!
>>>
>>> I'm also being a bit curious about the [tf] in
>>>
>>> \definemathsymbol [hat]      [accent] [tf] ["2]
>>>
>>> In math-fou.tex I see
>>> mi (Math Italics?)
>>> sy (Symbols?)
>>> ex (Extension?)
>>> mr (Math Roman?)
>>>
>>> 2) I guess all [mr] (10 or so) in math-fou.tex safely can be changed to
>>> [tf]?
>>
>> I would not just bet on it. I would try it first. If mr works, one
>> should better leave mr, but I have no idea why it fails.
>
> The reason \hat is defined using tf is because the math font does not have
> accents. This is the same thing with Euler, and last I checked (about a
> months ago), Euler accents work perfectly in MKIV. So, in principle it
> should  work with Fourier also.
>
> I do not have time right now to look into it, maybe sometime next week.
>
>>> 3) Does anyone know what has to be done to get this working in mkiv?
>>
>> Hans, what's the strategy with non-unicode fonts, in particular
>> Utopia? It doesn't come in otf format, but could still be used in both
>> mkiv and XeTeX. Is there some type-something.tex foreseen for such
>> fonts?
>
> Another possibility is to redistribute the fonts as otf. From what I
> understand from the license (http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utopia/)
> it is ok to modify the fonts (ie change the format) as long as you do not
> call the modified font utopia, and remove all references to Adobe. Are there
> tools to convert type 1 to otf?
>
fontforge can do the job, but you have to do some extra work: like
manually editing the kerning/ligature/onum feature table.

> Aditya
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