From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13109 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas A.Schmitz Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Greek font Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 10:06:18 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062862834 25764 80.91.224.253 (6 Sep 2003 15:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sat Sep 06 17:40:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19vfAv-0003b5-00 for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BEA510B1C; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:40:30 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com (mailout05.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.82]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC4910B1C for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 10:07:15 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from fwd00.aul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19vY69-0003wm-04; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 10:07:09 +0200 Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (VrjH+GZloe7oelLGiqP-POOcA2WYwNcd1SJWFUfsqQ27eu7MgrL0cY@[80.128.247.77]) by fmrl00.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19vY61-0kEgrI0; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 10:07:01 +0200 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-Seen: false X-ID: VrjH+GZloe7oelLGiqP-POOcA2WYwNcd1SJWFUfsqQ27eu7MgrL0cY@t-dialin.net 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:13109 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13109 Please excuse this long post. I was/am fiddling with fonts, "probably the most complicated aspect of TeX," to quote Hans... I feel I'm almost there, but I still need some help and would be very grateful if anybody could give me a hint. Thanks to Giuseppe Bilotta's help, I managed to typeset classical Greek with the CB-Greek fonts. Everything works, the accents are in the right places etc., yet the original CB-Greek doesn't look very good in pdfs. I have a very beautiful Greek font that comes with the LaTeX "psgreek"-package; it works in LaTeX and is, according to the manual, encoded with the same map as CB-Greek (in LaTeX, the encoding is called lgrenc.def, but I couldn't find any useful imformation in that file). I wrote a typescriptfile to use it in ConTeXt. The font works, all the glyphs are there, as I can see with a \showfont, but they're not in the right slots, which means that it doesn't build the correct ligatures for displaying accents etc. I assume I need to write a new encoding file to reassign the glyphs to their new position. I'd be willing to do this by hand (there aren't too many of them, after all), but how do I go about that? What I have got about this font (it's called "GreekOxonia," and in my eyes, it's the most beautiful typeface that's out there for classical Greek): greeoxon.pfb greeoxon.sfd greeoxon.sfd~ greeoxon.afm greeoxon.tfm a map file psgreek.map and a couple of accompanying .vf, .ovf and .ofm-files (all of them containing just a few characters of gibberish when I try to open them). Can anybody give me a hint where I could start? Any help would be most appreciated! Best Thomas