Using Nibus Roman with MkIV

Using Nibus Roman with MkIV

[Aditya Mahajan]

Hi,

Is it possible to use Nibus Roman with MkIV.

I have to send a document where the font used **must** be Times New Roman 
or Nimbus Roman. I tried using a clone (Termes), but I was told that I 
must use Times New Roman or Nimbus Roman. (It is a matter of regulations, 
so it is not possible for me to explain that Termes and Nibmus Roman are 
essentially the same).

So, is it possible to use Nimbus Roman (type1 font) in MkIV?

Thanks,
Aditya
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Re: Using Nibus Roman with MkIV

[Hans Hagen]

On 10/2/2013 9:47 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to use Nibus Roman with MkIV.
>
> I have to send a document where the font used **must** be Times New
> Roman or Nimbus Roman. I tried using a clone (Termes), but I was told
> that I must use Times New Roman or Nimbus Roman. (It is a matter of
> regulations, so it is not possible for me to explain that Termes and
> Nibmus Roman are essentially the same).
>
> So, is it possible to use Nimbus Roman (type1 font) in MkIV?

you can just force "file:somename.afm" .. mkiv will make a wide font of 
it (map onto unicode) so you should be fine

Hans


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Re: Using Nibus Roman with MkIV

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 10/2/2013 9:47 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Is it possible to use Nibus Roman with MkIV.
>> 
>> I have to send a document where the font used **must** be Times New
>> Roman or Nimbus Roman. I tried using a clone (Termes), but I was told
>> that I must use Times New Roman or Nimbus Roman. (It is a matter of
>> regulations, so it is not possible for me to explain that Termes and
>> Nibmus Roman are essentially the same).
>> 
>> So, is it possible to use Nimbus Roman (type1 font) in MkIV?
>
> you can just force "file:somename.afm" .. mkiv will make a wide font of it 
> (map onto unicode) so you should be fine

Thanks of lot!

I could not get protrosion to work (against a deadline, so I did not try 
too hard), but the basic mechanism works well. For anyone else interested 
in this, here is the typescript that I used:

\starttypescript [\s!serif] [times] [\s!name]
     \definefontsynonym [\s!Serif]             [file:utmr8a.afm]
     \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifItalic]       [file:utmri8a.afm]
     \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifBold]         [file:utmb8a.afm]
     \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifBoldItalic]   [file:utmbi8a.afm]
     \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifSlanted]      [file:utmri8a.afm]
     \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifBoldSlanted]  [file:utmbi8a.afm]
     \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifCaps]         [file:texgyretermes-regular] [\s!features=\s!smallcaps]
\stoptypescript

ConTeXt does not ship with these afm files, so I just copied them from the 
texlive directory to current working directory.

Thanks,
Aditya
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Offlist: Using Nibus Roman with MkIV

[Wolfgang Schuster]

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Am 03.10.2013 um 16:29 schrieb Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:

> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> On 10/2/2013 9:47 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Is it possible to use Nibus Roman with MkIV.
>>> I have to send a document where the font used **must** be Times New
>>> Roman or Nimbus Roman. I tried using a clone (Termes), but I was told
>>> that I must use Times New Roman or Nimbus Roman. (It is a matter of
>>> regulations, so it is not possible for me to explain that Termes and
>>> Nibmus Roman are essentially the same).
>>> So, is it possible to use Nimbus Roman (type1 font) in MkIV?
>> 
>> you can just force "file:somename.afm" .. mkiv will make a wide font of it (map onto unicode) so you should be fine
> 
> Thanks of lot!
> 
> I could not get protrosion to work (against a deadline, so I did not try too hard), but the basic mechanism works well. For anyone else interested in this, here is the typescript that I used:
> 
> \starttypescript [\s!serif] [times] [\s!name]
>    \definefontsynonym [\s!Serif]             [file:utmr8a.afm]
>    \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifItalic]       [file:utmri8a.afm]
>    \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifBold]         [file:utmb8a.afm]
>    \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifBoldItalic]   [file:utmbi8a.afm]
>    \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifSlanted]      [file:utmri8a.afm]
>    \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifBoldSlanted]  [file:utmbi8a.afm]
>    \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifCaps]         [file:texgyretermes-regular] [\s!features=\s!smallcaps]
> \stoptypescript
> 
> ConTeXt does not ship with these afm files, so I just copied them from the texlive directory to current working directory.

Hi Aditya,

why don’t you use the version of Times New Roman which is available with the mscore fonts* package,
it’s one the best ways to bet access to the fonts on a Linux machine.

* http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Wolfgang

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