Fonts again in ConTeXt

[Patrick Gundlach <pg@levana.de>]

"Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@fastmail.fm> writes:

Hello Bruce,

> On this, the only thing I changed was to use a different font, since
> palatino doesn't seem to work from ConTeXt in my new installation.

Same here :(

> I know this was discussed previously, but don't remember the
> bottomline point.  Shouldn't these fonts that are included with teTeX
> and TeXLive just work in ConTeXt, without needing any intervention by
> the user?  

They should...

> If yes, whose responsibility is this? Am using Gerben Wierda's OS X
> installer, but have a feeling this isn't his problem. Or maybe it
> is?

Yes and no... ConTeXt is looking for fonts with names that are totally
unusual compared to the ordinary TeX (LaTeX) System. Most TeX systems
(and I guess GW TeX as well) support psnfss, the postscript font
system to be used with latex. That means, that you should have fonts
named in a cryptic way "pplr8r.tfm" or such. ConTeXt on the other hand
looks for fontnames like "8r-uplr8a.tfm". Almost no one has a font
named like this on their system. So ConTeXt provides a mapping
(remember the command \usetypescript[berry][\defaultencoding]?) that
maps from 8r-uplr8a.tfm to uplr8r.tfm. But this will fail on many TeX
systems, since there is no such file. (It works on TeXlive7.) ConTeXt
should in this case rather map to pplr8r.tfm, which is available on
all psnfss systems (i.e. all LaTeX ready systems).

I should send Hans a different mapping to go into the distribution. I
am still undecided how to name it. Perhaps
\usetypescript[psnfss][..]? Or \...[ADOBEkb] as in updmap.cfg? Or
adobekb (lowercase)?

Patrick