Re: Two newbie questions about Texfont

[Harrie Frericks <harrie.frericks@xs4all.nl>]

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Thanks, Hans, I will look into that.
Harrie

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> Harrie Frericks wrote:
>
>> Now that I finally have Context running I'm trying to install a number of
>> type1 fonts. I've read the Texfont manual, but I couldn't find answers to
>> these questions:
>> 1. Can Texfont recursively process a font tree?
>>
>> I have a directory font tree like this:
>>
>> c:\fonts\type1\font-family1
>> c:\fonts\type1\font-family2
>> c:\fonts\type1\font-family3
>>
>> each font-family subdirectory has a number of .afm files. If I set
>> --sourcepath to c:\fonts\type1 can Texfont recurse all the subdirectories
>> of
>> the font families and locate and process the .afm files?
>>
>>
>> 2. Can Texfont handle .afm files with extensions in uppercase?
>>
>> Most of my type1 font files are in uppercase like: XYZ_____.AFM   I can
>> only
>> get Texfont to process these files if I first rename them to lowercase,
>> like
>> XYZ_____.AFM
>>
>
> since you're new to context you can consider skipping pdftex and moving on
> to either xetex or luatex (which uses context mkiv)
>
> for luatex/mkiv you don't need to mess around with fonts as this combo
> directly handles afm/pfb files so there is no need for creating tfm metrics
>
> Hans
>
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