Re: Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!

[Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>]

Hi Adam,


Adam Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Okay, it was trickier than I thought.
>  But I used the .afm obtained from FontForge conversion, and discarded
>  the .pfb.
>
>    afm2pl -p `kpsewhich texnansi.enc` HelveticaNeue.afm
>    pltotf HelveticaNeue
>
>  Because I'm impatient, and wanted a quick test:
>  \loadmapline[+HelveticaNeue HelveticaNeue " TeXnANSIEncoding
>  ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <HelveticaNeue.ttf]
>  \starttext
>  \definedfont[HelveticaNeue]
>  TAVAT.Po
>  T{}A{}V{}A{}T{}.{}P{}o
>  \stoptext


Your result looks promising - but duplicating your way showed me my 
command line limits:

$ afm2pl -p `kpsewhich texnansi.enc` HelveticaNeue.afm
afm2pl: fatal: default.lig not found.

$ pltotf HelveticaNeue
pltotf: HelveticaNeue.pl: No such file or directory

As I have never used afm2pl or pltotf the usage above is praobably wrong.
Or was my Fontforge export bad?
(When I open the AFM exported by FontForge there are no entries for 
KerningPairs ...)

And looking at your test file: where are your ttf and other files in 
this situation?

Steffen