From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11368 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bruce D'Arcus" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fonts again in ConTeXt Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:23:02 -0500 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: <03031214045703.11186@mondriaan> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047475089 8962 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2003 13:18:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Mar 12 14:18:07 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18t67T-0002KE-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:18:07 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D3C10B8F; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:18:48 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from muaix01.mcs.muohio.edu (unknown [134.53.6.34]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEC410AF9 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:16:20 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from muwnt05 (muwnt05.mcs.muohio.edu [134.53.6.19]) by muaix01.mcs.muohio.edu (Switch-3.0.0/Switch-3.0.0) with SMTP id h2CDGKBm202508 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:16:20 -0500 Original-Received: From mcsaix02.mcs.muohio.edu ([134.53.253.26]) by muwnt05 (WebShield SMTP v4.5 MR1a); id 1047474978958; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:16:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fastmail.fm (u194.s28.muohio.edu [134.53.28.194]) by mcsaix02.mcs.muohio.edu (Switch-3.0.0/Switch-3.0.0) with ESMTP id h2CDGAar061076 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:16:16 -0500 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <03031214045703.11186@mondriaan> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11368 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11368 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