a little ConTeXt advocacy-)

a little ConTeXt advocacy-)

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

Dear Knights of the TeX Table,

In an ongoing discussion about OpenType TeX came up and i just added a  
blurb about ConTeXt. The overall discussion may be interesting to some of  
you so here it is:

http://typophile.com/node/16838

The comments on TeX and ConTeXt are near the end of the second page:

http://typophile.com/node/16838?from=50&comments_per_page=50

Also, if someone has time, there is a ConTeXt wiki item that needs  
editing...

http://typophile.com/wiki/ConTeXt

Best
Idris

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A font problem with the stand-alone Windows distribution

[Ville Voipio]

A font problem -- again. I am so sorry.

I try to use the URW postscript fonts with the stand-alone 
mswincontext.zip distribution. Everything else seems to work fine, but 
when I say:

   \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding]
   \usetypescript[pos][\defaultencoding]
   \setupbodyfont[pos,11pt]

I get a bunch of complaints from Acroread, and it uses Helvetica 
everywhere. (The same happens with Postscript instead of pos.)

The reason is rather clear, the log has the following rows:

   Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ptmb8y): Font ptmb8y at 79 not found
   Warning: pdfetex.exe (file pcrr8y): Font pcrr8y at 55 not found
   Warning: pdfetex.exe (file pcrr8y): Font pcrr8y at 86 not found
   etc.

So, the system tries to find the Adobe fonts which I do not have. Their 
URW counterparts are included in the stand-alone distribution, but the 
system does not seem to look for the u***** fonts.

I do not claim to understand the complete font mess, but ConTeXt seems 
to get the right map files:

   fonts           : resetting map file list
   fonts           : using map file: original-base
   fonts           : using map file: ec-public-lm
   fonts           : using map file: ec-base
   fonts           : using map file: original-ams-base
   fonts           : using map file: original-public-lm
   fonts           : using map file: texnansi-base
   fonts           : using map file: texnansi-urw-times
   fonts           : using map file: original-youngryu-tx
   fonts           : using map file: texnansi-urw-helvetica
   fonts           : using map file: texnansi-urw-courier

What goes wrong? I am using the newest mswincontext.zip downloaded just 
a half an hour ago, the log says:

   ConTeXt  ver: 2006.01.09  fmt: 2006.1.9  int: english  mes: english

Thanks for all hints. And once again, sorry for spamming the list with 
YAFP (Yet Another Font Problem).

- Ville

Re: A font problem with the stand-alone Windows distribution

[Taco Hoekwater]

Ville Voipio wrote:
> A font problem -- again. I am so sorry.
> 
> I try to use the URW postscript fonts with the stand-alone 
> mswincontext.zip distribution. Everything else seems to work fine, but 
> when I say:
> 
>   \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding]
>   \usetypescript[pos][\defaultencoding]
>   \setupbodyfont[pos,11pt]

Try the next two lines instead of those three lines:

    \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding]
    \setupbodyfont[postscript,11pt]

That's what works for me, at least (but I am not on windows)

Cheers, Taco

Re: A font problem with the stand-alone Windows distribution

[Ville Voipio]

> Try the next two lines instead of those three lines:
> 
>    \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding]
>    \setupbodyfont[postscript,11pt]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

The problem was not the difference between pos and postscript (they seem 
to be synonyms, both work) but the magic row:

   \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding]

This one seems to instruct ConTeXt to use the real Adobe fonts. I tried 
almost every other combination but did not remove the row which says 
"Adobe". Stupid me.

However, the magic row with "adobekb" is present in almost all examples 
I've seen. And yet very few people have the real Adobe fonts. So, 
possibly this should be noted somewhere. (Anyway, what is the 
\usetypescript[adobekb] supposed to do?)

- Ville

Re: A font problem with the stand-alone Windows distribution

[Taco Hoekwater]

Ville Voipio wrote:
> However, the magic row with "adobekb" is present in almost all examples 
> I've seen. And yet very few people have the real Adobe fonts. So, 
> possibly this should be noted somewhere. 

The problem *should* go away after the next update of the context
distribution. (I have no problems with that extra line here. But
then, I do not use mswincontext.zip and always have the very latest
release)

>(Anyway, what is the \usetypescript[adobekb] supposed to do?)

It is (was, actually) supposed to switch from texfont-generated metric
files (ec-utmr8t) to fontinst-generated metrics (ptmr8t). Since that
is the default nowadays the command has become obsolete.

Cheers, Taco

Re: a little ConTeXt advocacy-)

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2006-01-18 um 17:58 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid:

> Also, if someone has time, there is a ConTeXt wiki item that needs  
> editing...
> http://typophile.com/wiki/ConTeXt

As you seem to be active at typophile.com, why don't you just add  
there a link to the garden?

Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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Re: a little ConTeXt advocacy-)

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:41:57 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>  
wrote:

> Am 2006-01-18 um 17:58 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid:
>
>> Also, if someone has time, there is a ConTeXt wiki item that needs  
>> editing...
>> http://typophile.com/wiki/ConTeXt
>
> As you seem to be active at typophile.com, why don't you just add there  
> a link to the garden?

Done-)

Best
Idris

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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

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