Re: Fonts again in ConTeXt

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@fastmail.fm>]

On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 08:04  AM, Maarten Sneep wrote:

>>> 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?
>
> It is clearer: the first bit gives the encoding and the latter bit is 
> the
> name of the file containign the glyphs (uplr8a.pfb).

The "8r" at the end of the psnfss version also gives the encoding, and 
I don't really think there's a need to have the precise pfb name in the 
tfm file name.  That's not to say there aren't problems with psnfss, 
just that in this context those problems aren't important.

> Since texfont uses afm2tfm directly (and the tfm files that come with 
> psnfss
> are hand tuned) I don't think that using texfont blindly is a very 
> good idea.
> It would be better to use the existing tfm files.

Right.  Patrick has a file that maps the ConTeXt names to the pfsnss 
names, which solves the problem.

Bruce