* Some observations about the URW-Garamond
@ 2005-02-06 11:40 Thomas A.Schmitz
2005-02-06 11:56 ` Hartmut Henkel
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From: Thomas A.Schmitz @ 2005-02-06 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
I played around a bit with the new URW-Garamond that URW donated to the
TeX community; as you may have seen on the list, the font files can be
downloaded via CTAN at CTAN/fonts/urw/garamond/ If you fetch the entire
directory, you'll find
1. the font in .afm, .pfb and .pfm format,
2. support files for LaTeX written by Walter Schmidt, with instructions
for installation.
After installation, the font worked in LaTeX, but wouldn't work in
ConTeXt "out of the box." I didn't spend time to figure out why because
creating the necessary files with texfont is a snap. For beginners, a
very brief how-to:
1. copy the afm- and pfb-files into a working directory, cd to this
directory;
2. run the command
for f in ugm*.afm do texfont --fontroot=~/texmf --ve=urw --co=garamond
--ma --in
(adjusting ~/texmf to wherever you want the font installed)
(Of course, you can add other encodings if you wish.)
Then I hit a problem. texfont creates map entries in this format:
texnansi-raw-ugmm8a GaramondNo8-Med 4 < ugmm8a.pfb texnansi.enc
texnansi-raw-ugmmi8a GaramondNo8-MedIta 4 < ugmmi8a.pfb texnansi.enc
texnansi-raw-ugmr8a GaramondNo8-Reg 4 < ugmr8a.pfb texnansi.enc
texnansi-raw-ugmri8a GaramondNo8-Ita 4 < ugmri8a.pfb texnansi.enc
My version of pdfetex (3.141592-1.20b-rc5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)) refused to
read these entries (problems with backward compoatibility?). After I
rewrote to the format I found in the map that comes with the font
texnansi-raw-ugmr8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont "
<texnansi.enc <ugmr8a.pfb
texnansi-raw-ugmri8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont "
<texnansi.enc <ugmri8a.pfb
texnansi-raw-ugmm8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont "
<texnansi.enc <ugmm8a.pfb
texnansi-raw-ugmmi8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont "
<texnansi.enc <ugmmi8a.pfb
everything was golden. You now have a version of Garamond for those who
are too poor or too cheap to buy the real McCoy. The font looks nice to
me (I'm not an expert), especially in its italic version. You get
regular, italic, semi-bold and semi-bold italics, no expert ligatures,
no old-style numerals.
I wrote a very basic typescript file:
\usetypescriptfile[type-buy]
\starttypescript [serif] [urwgaramond] [texnansi]
\definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Roman] [texnansi-ugmr8a]
[encoding=texnansi]
\definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Bold] [texnansi-ugmm8a]
[encoding=texnansi]
\definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Italic] [texnansi-ugmri8a]
[encoding=texnansi]
\definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Bold-Italic] [texnansi-ugmmi8a]
[encoding=texnansi]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript [serif] [urwgaramond] [name]
\usetypescript[serif][fallback]
\definefontsynonym [Serif] [URWGaramond-Roman]
\definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [URWGaramond-Italic]
\definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [URWGaramond-Bold]
\definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [URWGaramond-Bold-Italic]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript [URWGaramond]
\definetypeface [MyURWGaramond] [rm] [serif] [urwgaramond] [default]
[encoding=texnansi]
\stoptypescript
You can then typeset in the new font:
\usetypescriptfile [type-urwgaramond]
\usetypescript[URWGaramond]
\setupbodyfont[MyURWGaramond,11pt]
\starttext
Hello world!
\stoptext
HTH
Thomas
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* Re: Some observations about the URW-Garamond
2005-02-06 11:40 Some observations about the URW-Garamond Thomas A.Schmitz
@ 2005-02-06 11:56 ` Hartmut Henkel
2005-02-06 13:58 ` Thomas A.Schmitz
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From: Hartmut Henkel @ 2005-02-06 11:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
> Then I hit a problem. texfont creates map entries in this format:
>
> texnansi-raw-ugmm8a GaramondNo8-Med 4 < ugmm8a.pfb texnansi.enc
> My version of pdfetex (3.141592-1.20b-rc5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)) refused
> to read these entries (problems with backward compoatibility?). After
> I rewrote to the format I found in the map that comes with the font
>
> texnansi-raw-ugmr8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <ugmr8a.pfb
> everything was golden.
This was a bug in 1.20b (blanks after "<" did matter, unfortunately).
It's meanwhile (1.20c-betas, 1.21a) fixed. Also your original version by
texfont would work now.
Regards, Hartmut
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* Re: Some observations about the URW-Garamond
2005-02-06 11:56 ` Hartmut Henkel
@ 2005-02-06 13:58 ` Thomas A.Schmitz
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From: Thomas A.Schmitz @ 2005-02-06 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
>
> This was a bug in 1.20b (blanks after "<" did matter, unfortunately).
> It's meanwhile (1.20c-betas, 1.21a) fixed. Also your original version
> by
> texfont would work now.
>
Ah, that explains it. Thanks for the info! And let's hope that newer
versions become available and pdfetex will settle down soon; I'm
getting a bit confused with recent changes, and installing it into a
working TeX installation is non-trivial, AFAICS.
Best
Thomas
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