Re: mfonts.tex from manuals

[David Arnold <darnold@northcoast.com>]

Taco, Hans, et al,

I'd like to remind you that this problem (uplr8t) still seems to  
exist when I tried compiling the beginner's manual ma-cb-en.

I had to do two things to get ma-cb-en.tex to compile:

1. Make this change to: ma-cb-style.tex:

\startnotmode[atpragma]

     \usetypescript[adobekb][8r,ec]
     \usetypescriptfile[type-buy]
     \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding]
     \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt]

\stopnotmode

2. Make this change to ma-cb-abbreviations.tex.

\startenvironment ma-cb-abbreviations

\usemodule[abr-01]



On Nov 22, 2005, at 11:27 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> David Arnold wrote:
>
>> All,
>> I was able to texfont the demofont and texfont the palatino and   
>> compiled test files for each. But when I try to compile  
>> mfonts.tex, I  get the stuff below. I obviously need help. I have  
>> no uplr8t anything  on my system.
>>
>
> First: here is a quick fix. I've made my copy of mfonts.tex
> start with these
>
>   \usetypescript[adobekb][8r,ec]
>   \usetypescriptfile [type-buy]
>   \usetypescriptfile [typeface]
>   \environment ../allkind/mcommon.tex
>
> That fixed the problem with Palatino (It now says I have
> missing LucidaBright (texnansi-lbXXX) fonts, but I believe
> that is correct because it is from an example, and at least
> one hurdle is taken).
>
>
> Now for the actual problem.
>
> It looks like this problem is caused by type-dis.tex. In that file,
> fontsynonym mappings are provided between texfont-style metric names
> and berry-style filenames for a number of free Type 1 fonts,
> esp. the ones that come from URW and are shipped with ghostscript.
>
> In theory, the definitions in that file are fine, but in the real
> world there is a problem:
>
>   The URW fonts are normally used only to mimic Adobe's base
>   PostScript fonts like Times and Palatino, are therefore almost
>   never installed under their true names like URWPalladio and
>   Nimbus Roman.
>
> So, the font metrics for URWPalladioL-Roma in EC (psnfss)
> encoding are typically installed as pplr8t (the initial p
> indicating Adobe, to mimic Palatino-Roman) instead of uplr8t
> like they should be (that initial u would be indicating urw).
>
> I am not sure how Hans feels about this, but there are two ways out:
>
> 1. Certainly the *easiest* way to get a working solution is to
> change the fontsynonyms in typ-dis.tex so that they match the real
> world instead of the desired world.
>
> 2. But on the other hand, that would be promoting a rather bad
> practise, and deleting the fontsynonyms instead would be better.
>
> I happen to know that Hans will start distributing a cont-fnt.zip
> file soon that will contain texfont-style metrics, so my vote goes
> to the second solution.
>
>
>
> Greetings, Taco
>
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David