Re: font tryout

[Nigel King <king@dircon.co.uk>]

Kris,
With root privileges, you need to run

texfont --encoding=ec  --batch type-tmf.dat

Page 13 of mtexfont.pdf explains

This should create the files you need.
-- 
Nigel

> From: "Kris Hermans" <KrisHermans@advalvas.be>
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 12:24:13 +0200
> To: "ConTeXt Mailing List" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> Subject: font tryout
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a MikTex 2.1 installation which I updated to the last Context. Now I
> want to experiment with fonts. I read both documents on fonts (mfonts.pdf
> and mtexfont.pdf), but these documents are not quite obvious for a newbie
> like me.
> 
> From the docs I figured out that I should be able to use the times font from
> the vendor "urw", because all the necessary files (tfm, pfb and the like)
> seem available. Also I looked in type-exa and type-map.tex, but I only have
> a clue of what they mean.
> 
> Anyway I made a little test file where i use the postscript fonts:
> 
> \setupbodyfont[pos]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> Dit is een testje met het gebruik van fonts
> 
> \starttyping
> public void main(String[] args) {
> System.out.println("Hello World !");
> }
> \stoptyping
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> 
> However, this fails for the following reason:
> 
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.1)
> (preloaded format=cont-en 2002.5.30)  1 JUN 2002 12:17
> entering extended mode
> **test.tex
> (test.tex{pdftex.cfg}
> 
> ConTeXt  ver: 2002.5.20  fmt: 2002.5.30  int: english  mes: english
> 
> language       : language en is active
> system         : cont-new loaded
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex
> systems        : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex!
> system (E-TEX) : [line 839] \dimexpr
> )
> system         : cont-old loaded
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\cont-old.tex
> loading        : Context Old Macros
> )
> system         : cont-fil loaded
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\cont-fil.tex
> loading        : Context File Synonyms
> )
> bodyfont       : 12pt rm is loaded
> language       : patterns 2:2-en-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-nl-2
> loaded
> specials       : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded
> system         : test.top loaded
> (./test.top
> specials       : loading definition file tpd
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\spec-tpd.tex
> specials       : loading definition file fdf
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4>
> system (E-TEX) : [line 1624] \ifcsname
> <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>)
> specials       : fdf loaded
> <unprotect 3> <protect 3>)
> specials       : fdf,tpd loaded
> )
> pdftex         : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-pre.tex
> typescript     : [serif] [times] [name,ec]
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-map.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex)
> typescript     : [sans] [helvetica] [name,ec]
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-map.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex)
> typescript     : [mono] [courier] [name,ec]
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-map.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex)
> typescript     : [serif,sans,mono] [default] [size]
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-map.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex)
> typescript     : [map] [ec] []
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-map.tex
> pdftex         : needs map file: original-ams-cmr.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: original-ams-euler.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-adobe-utopia.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-bit-charter.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-public-antp.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-public-antt.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-urw-bookman.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-urw-courier.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-urw-helvetica.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-urw-palatino.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-urw-times.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-urw-zapfchan.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: original-youngryu-px.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: original-youngryu-tx.map
> pdftex         : needs map file: ec-bh-lucida.map
> ) (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex)
> (C:\texmf\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex))
> ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ec-utmr8a at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not
> foun
> d.
> \lastfontname ->ec-utmr8a at \scaledfont
> 
> \donoparsefontspec ...sname \lastfontname
>                                         \relax \relax
> \xxdododefinefont ...2}\newfontidentifier
>                                         \doresetrelativefontsize \f...
> \fontstrategy ...sname #2#3#4#5\endcsname
>                                         \tryingfontfalse \fi
> <inserted text> ...talternative \fontsize
>                                         \fi \iftryingfont \fontstra...
> \synchronizefont ... \the \fontstrategies
>                                         \relax \fi \ifskipfontchara...
> ...
> l.1 \setupbodyfont[pos]
> 
> 
> When I search in my distribution, I don't find the file ec-utmr8a.tmf, but I
> do have the files:
> utmr8c.tfm
> utmr8r.tfm
> utmr8t.tfm
> utmr8c.vf
> utmr8t.vf
> utmr8.afm
> utmr8.pfb
> utmr8.pfm
> 
> any idea on what's wrong?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> Kris Hermans
> 
>