Re: Font problems (special characters, URW)

[Ville Voipio <vv@iki.fi>]

Hello!

Thank you for your reply. Here is some more information about the font
problem.

> you should be able to use the bunch of free fonts that comes with tex live 
> without problems; these contain times, and helvetica alternatives

These fonts are installed so that pdfTeX has access to them, i.e.
\usepackage{txfonts} or \usepackage{times} work fine in LaTeX. (The fonts
are the URW counterparts to the Base14 fonts.)

> does \setupbodyfont[ber,pos] work on your machine?

Nope. See transcript below. As far as I understand, it tries to find Times
font metrics without success.

Thank you for your help!

- Ville

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ConTeXt  ver: 2001.11.13  fmt: 2002.4.16  int: english  mes: english

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typescript     : [berry] [ec] []
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typescript     : [serif,sans,mono] [default] [size]
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\lastfontname ...mes-Roman at \scaledfont 

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