From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8875 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Fonts: ConTeXt+MikTeX Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:23:10 +0300 (EET DST) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <20020729124917.75325cda.wmcclain@salamander.com> Reply-To: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399246 31152 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:54:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXt Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20020729124917.75325cda.wmcclain@salamander.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8875 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8875 On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Bill McClain wrote: > You said earlier you are using MikTex; I think you need to investigate > that facility first. Yap, that's at least one of the reasons for font problems. This is a tale about how we got other fonts (than Computer Modern) to work, the combination I use is WindowsNT + MikTeX + WinEdt Problem number 1: ConTeXt really *hates* paths that have a space in them, like C:\Program Files. If your MikTeX is installed in that directory or any other one with a space in its name, you will run into problems with the fonts. Remedy: Install MikTeX in the texmf directory. Or at least in a directory of its own at the root, that probably works as well. The text below is an extract of my brother's (I guess that's no secret...) earlier message from when we fought with this problem: "My old MiKTeX installation was installed at C:\Program Files\MiKTeX. The space in the path confused texfont, it complained about "c:program" not found. Installing to d:/texmf removed this complaint. (However, I'd love to keep my programs in the "program files" folder, so this should be solved, as well.)" [message URL: ] Problem number 2: Using the fonts still needs some more tricks. What works for us, although a bit slowly (though I haven't tried all the hints in the above mentioned thread yet), is the following code: \setupencoding[default=ec] \usetypescript [berry] [ec] \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt] This let's me use a standard postscript font which looks remarkably like the Times New Roman we have in our old manual made by Word - it is a lot more alike than Computer Modern and will photocopy a lot better, too. I think that can be elaborated a bit, but I don't quite understand yet what the above code does so tweaking it is kind of difficult... (I *hate* touching any code I don't thoroughly understand.) At least I now have some kind of chance to experiment with the different urw fonts. mari