Texfont feature request.

* Texfont feature request.
@ 2007-06-28 18:36 John R. Culleton
  2007-06-28 19:12 ` luigi scarso
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: John R. Culleton @ 2007-06-28 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ntg-context

Texfont is an awesome program. I just created a free and legal 
Bitstream Charter pseudo small caps font. (The real thing costs money 
so I can't redistribute it free.) But I have two problems with it in 
practice.

1. It is designed to work with typescripts. But when I need to use the 
font with e.g., pdftex I have to use updmap anyway.  That means among 
other things I have to search for the generated map file, determine 
its name, and add it to updmap.cfg. And even with Context sometimes a 
typescript is overkill. 

2. When I want to distribute a demonstration app in source code format 
using that font, I have to collect all the generated bits and pieces 
and put them in the same directory as the app. That will work. But 
where are all the bits and pieces? More searching.

Now here is my request: add a switch that eliminates the movement of 
bits and pieces elsewhere so that the map file, the tfm files, the vf 
files etc. are all collected in the current directory.  AFAIK such an 
app would compile and use the special font. 

-- 
John Culleton
ATTN Publishers/authors:
If you don't read you don't succeed.
Free short list of publishing/marketing books. 
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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