From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6419 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: More font problems -- CMTT instead of Courier Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:35:43 -0400 (AST) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20011227140557.03c78a50@server-1> Reply-To: "George N. White III" NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396950 10443 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:15:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Giuseppe Bilotta , Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20011227140557.03c78a50@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6419 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6419 On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Hans Hagen wrote: > >\starttypescript [sans] [courier] [name] > > > >should read > > > >\starttypescript [mono] [courier] [name] > > Whow, that's indeed a stupid bug. Well, some of us prefer cmtt over Courier! Some "bugs" really are features! Courier exaggerates line break problems with long URL's or embedded source code (I often use ProTex literate programming to document source code) and lacks cmtt's "space" character which is useful in situations (e.g., Fortran formatted input files) where spaces are significant. I stopped working with typescripts while trying to get context working under Win32. Now that I have the 20011201 teTeX beta nearly running in Cygwin I can start thinking about typescript's again. Two things I often need are a (fake) caps font and (now) cmtt (e.g., instead of Courier). I can enable a caps font generated using fontutil by redefining a few things right in my files, but I don't seem to be able to make such tweaks work via a typescript file. The examples in the manuals show how to add new fonts, but aren't as clear about what is needed when you only want to make a small change to one of the predefined fonts. Now that I have two things to tweak it makes more sense to create a new typescript. -- George N. White III Bedford Institute of Oceanography