Re: Change the font to Charter

[Curious <curiouslearn@gmail.com>]

> You are right that some things need to be fixed in ConTeXt - if
> nothing else, the map file could be removed from type-one and
> type.map. (Do not bother if you don't understand what I have written -
> it's targeted to ConTeXt gurus. Any opinions?)
> 
> The file is missing, but all the needed definitions are inside
> ec-base.map (I guess, I don't find ec-bitstrea-charter.map anywhere in
> order to compare):
> 
> bchb8t  CharterBT-Bold           <ec.enc <bchb8a.pfb
> bchbi8t CharterBT-BoldItalic     <ec.enc <bchbi8a.pfb
> bchr8t  CharterBT-Roman          <ec.enc <bchr8a.pfb
> bchri8t CharterBT-Italic         <ec.enc <bchri8a.pfb
> 
> bchbo8t CharterBT-Bold           ".167 SlantFont" <ec.enc <bchb8a.pfb
> bchro8t CharterBT-Roman          ".167 SlantFont" <ec.enc <bchr8a.pfb
> 
> There are these files present on TeX Live (they are not in minimals):
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchr8t.tfm
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchr8t.vf
> 
> But when I compare to LaTeX with the following code
>     \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>     \usepackage[charter]{mathdesign}
> it uses other font metric files:
>     /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mathdesign/mdbch/t1mdbch.fd
> ...
> \DeclareFontShape{T1}{mdbch}{m}{n}{
>    <->s * [0.96]  mdbchr8t
> }{}
> ...
>     /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/mathdesign/mdbch/mdbchr8t.tfm
> 
> I suspect that one might need to fix or improve typescripts. Do you
> have some visual examples to show the differences? It would be
> interesting to compare the differences between bchr8t and mdbchr8t and
> change typescripts if needed.
> 
> Moreover, math support would have to be added to typescripts - it
> could be based on mathdesign.
> 
> Mojca

Thanks Mojca. Appreciate your response, though as you said I do not really
understand what I have to do, or if I could do anything. But a few things,

(1) Regarding the visual examples, I could post the PDF file generated with
Latex and Context. Is there a way to do that on this list? I noticed another
difference, which is that the line spacing is slightly more in the Context
document (compared to that compiled with Latex). In latex I chose
\singlespacing. In Context, I did not change the default spacing. Is the default
spacing different than singlespacing? 

(2) I was going to ask about the math support. You mentioned that it would have
to be added to the typescript. How difficult is that? Does anyone know the
commands that can be used for adding such support. 

Thanks.

p.s. - BTW thanks very very much to the creators of Context for presenting us
with this wonderful tool. I hope I can use it more and more for my work to
create beautiful document.
 




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