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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt standalone - in what situations is it better?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:18:54 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1310241015520.27245@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131024101022.6c125cdd@localb.wexfordpress.net>

> The problem with Standalone is that the full range of fonts found with
> Texlive is not available. Standalone has 258 otf fonts and TexLive
> has 508 otf fonts. So I am opting for TeXLive, although I have both.

I use standalone in parallel with texlive (which I need for latex). In the 
Arch PKGBUILD that I maintain, I use:

  # If texlive exists, use fonts from texlive
  if [ -d $_texlivefontdir ]
  then
    mkdir -p $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts
    if [ -L $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts ]
    then
      rm $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts
    fi
    ln -s $_texlivefontdir $srcdir/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts
  fi

So, if TL is installed, the TL font directory is symlinked at an 
appropriate location and all the TL fonts are available with ConTeXt 
standalone as well.

> Another dfficulty is that many of the examples for simplefonts
> are apparently developed on a Windows system and I use Linux. Font
> names are different.

I haven't had any trouble with using simplefonts in Linux (but then, I 
rarely consult the wiki for usage examples). Could you point to specific 
examples.

Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-24 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-24 12:13 Lars Huttar
2013-10-24 12:57 ` Mojca Miklavec
2013-10-24 14:10   ` john Culleton
2013-10-24 14:18     ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2013-10-24 21:16       ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-10-24 14:15 ` Aditya Mahajan

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