From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30155 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texfont: installed font only works with pdftex Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:29:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1154883237.1057.2.camel@g5.home> <2AC5B68D-6F43-4850-8854-180D7A5EBC06@uni-bonn.de> <44D73F36.5020107@wxs.nl> <44D845D3.4000307@wxs.nl> <44D851AC.90603@elvenkind.com> <44D9017B.7020600@elvenkind.com> <44D9061E.4070503@wxs.nl> <44D908C8.7040308@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155101438 26604 80.91.229.2 (9 Aug 2006 05:30:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 05:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 09 07:30:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GAgeK-0003Fp-5V for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:30:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376A41FE15; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:30:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01636-05; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:30:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A8B1FE0D; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:30:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945AC1FE0D for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:30:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02121-04 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:30:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com (mailout11.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F0E41FE0A for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:30:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fwd29.aul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1GAge1-0002Ts-06; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (bRLGj6Z1weIl2ruEtiE+6+Ina6zK9NclVuYgd3p-lS+8TeJqP9QuUo@[84.172.121.204]) by fwd29.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1GAgdy-1AUaOG0; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:30:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: <44D908C8.7040308@elvenkind.com> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-ID: bRLGj6Z1weIl2ruEtiE+6+Ina6zK9NclVuYgd3p-lS+8TeJqP9QuUo@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: d2d47672-862b-458e-9d81-3feb710663cf X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30155 Archived-At: On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non >> existing ligs into account > > Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this > tomorrow, > it is too late for me to do serious work. > I've experimented with afm2pl, and as I wrote in an earlier mail: the beginning of EC.enc with its additional LIGKERN instructions confuses it so it will not include default ligatures. If you delete this, it will work. If you use lm-ec.enc (which has a number of mistakes fixed anyway), it works. BUT afm2pl needs a file default.lig which is not present in all TeX distributions. I asked Siep a couple of months ago, and he replied there was a switch to ignore default.lig, but in that case, the default ligs would have to be supplied by texfont itself (which should be doable). IMHO, texfont should switch to afm2pl by default; it's much better at preserving kerning information (Adam, any thoughts on this?), and it makes virtual fonts unnecessary. I now use it regularly for all my font needs and am very satisfied with it. Best Thomas