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From: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Subject: Re: Problem with Google Font 'Vollkorn'
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:57:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ECE6957D-F02E-4B9C-85C4-01D9B473DBBC@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CC0BABEB-2385-4578-A86C-52C24EE40CBC@ca.rr.com>



> Am 12.11.2021 um 18:23 schrieb Michael Urban via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>:
> 
> I downloaded the Google free font ‘Vollkorn’ (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Vollkorn) into an appropriate directory and ran 
> mtxrun --script font --reload 
> all went well, and the Vollkorn truetype fonts show up in the output of mtxrun --script font --list --all   .
> 
> However, the following input:
> 
> \starttext
> \definedfont[name:vollkornregular*default at 14pt]
> \input tufte
> \stoptext
> 
> fails, with the following output:
> system       > ConTeXt  ver: 2020.03.10 14:44 MKIV beta  fmt: 2020.6.8  int: english/english
> 
> fonts           > otf loading > loading 'MYPATH/texmf/fonts/truetype/google/Vollkorn-Regular.ttf', hash 'vollkorn-regular'
> fonts           > otf loading > loading failed due to read error
> fonts           > defining > forced type 'ttf' of 'Vollkorn-Regular' not found
> fonts           > defining > font with asked name 'Vollkorn-Regular' is not found using lookup 'name'
> fonts           > defining > unknown font 'Vollkorn-Regular', loading aborted
> 
> This is on Mac OSX.   I don't recall this problem coming up before.  Evidently the difficulty is that it is expecting an otf font and is confounded by the truetype file.   
> 
> The ConTeXt font system always bewilders me, but this time it's pretty specific.  Help?
> 

For me it works on MacOS 10.14 and ConTeXt LMTX 2021.10.28.

Does your list look like mine?:

$ mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=vollkorn
identifier                familyname   fontname                  filename                       subfont   instances

vollkornblack             vollkorn     vollkornblack             Vollkorn-Black.ttf
vollkornblackitalic       vollkorn     vollkornblackitalic       Vollkorn-BlackItalic.ttf
vollkornbold              vollkorn     vollkornbold              Vollkorn-Bold.ttf
vollkornbolditalic        vollkorn     vollkornbolditalic        Vollkorn-BoldItalic.ttf
vollkornextrabold         vollkorn     vollkornextrabold         Vollkorn-ExtraBold.ttf
vollkornextrabolditalic   vollkorn     vollkornextrabolditalic   Vollkorn-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf
vollkornitalic            vollkorn     vollkornitalic            Vollkorn-Italic.ttf
vollkornmedium            vollkorn     vollkornmedium            Vollkorn-Medium.ttf
vollkornmediumitalic      vollkorn     vollkornmediumitalic      Vollkorn-MediumItalic.ttf
vollkornnormal            vollkorn     vollkornitalic            Vollkorn-Italic.ttf
vollkornregular           vollkorn     vollkornregular           Vollkorn-Regular.ttf
vollkornsemibold          vollkorn     vollkornsemibold          Vollkorn-SemiBold.ttf
vollkornsemibolditalic    vollkorn     vollkornsemibolditalic    Vollkorn-SemiBoldItalic.ttf

Hraban
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-12 17:23 Michael Urban via ntg-context
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