From: "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: Fonts again in ConTeXt
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:10:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9292DECE-53D3-11D7-93AD-0050E4258255@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zno2c65q.fsf@gundla.ch>
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> 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.
This kind of thing is just silly. The above named file is no more
clearly named than the psnfss version, so what's the point?
Anyway, I vote for your first name option for the mapping file:
\usetypescript[psnfss]
Make sure you send it to Gerben too, so he can get it in the installer
sooner rather than later...
Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-11 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-10 16:25 Displayed material, again Giuseppe Bilotta
2003-03-10 16:50 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2003-03-10 20:22 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2003-03-10 22:15 ` s-mag-01 Bruce D'Arcus
2003-03-11 8:00 ` s-mag-01 Hans Hagen
2003-03-11 14:11 ` s-mag-01 Bruce D'Arcus
2003-03-11 14:31 ` s-mag-01 Hans Hagen
2003-03-11 14:34 ` s-mag-01 Bruce D'Arcus
2003-03-11 14:46 ` Fonts again in ConTeXt Patrick Gundlach
2003-03-11 15:10 ` Bruce D'Arcus [this message]
2003-03-12 13:04 ` Maarten Sneep
2003-03-12 13:23 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2003-03-12 13:26 ` Maarten Sneep
2003-03-12 14:05 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-03-12 15:11 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-12 15:43 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-03-12 19:35 ` Jens-Uwe Morawski
2003-03-13 8:31 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-03-14 8:27 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-12 20:26 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-13 8:54 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-03-13 12:37 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-13 15:07 ` John Culleton
2003-03-13 15:52 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-21 18:05 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-03-22 11:10 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-14 21:34 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2003-03-14 21:24 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2003-03-21 18:06 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-03-12 15:09 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-11 15:02 ` s-mag-01 Adam Lindsay
2003-03-11 20:52 ` s-mag-01 Hans Hagen
2003-03-11 9:13 ` s-mag-01 Patrick Gundlach
2003-03-10 17:00 ` Displayed material, again Hans Hagen
2003-03-10 23:24 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-11 10:08 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2003-03-11 10:52 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-11 11:47 ` Re[3]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2003-03-11 14:57 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-11 17:04 ` Re[4]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2003-03-12 20:36 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-13 9:36 ` Re[5]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2003-03-13 12:23 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-11 15:12 ` Re[3]: " Hans Hagen
2003-03-12 21:07 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-13 9:38 ` Re[4]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
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