From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21507 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Patrick Gundlach" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: some beta software (fontinstaller) Date: 20 Jul 2005 19:01:12 +0200 Organization: chaos Message-ID: References: <20050707123910.GD5452@puritan.pnetwork> <42CE4A5B.3020204@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121879062 11532 80.91.229.2 (20 Jul 2005 17:04:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 20 19:04:17 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvHyV-0000y6-Uy for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:03:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 909D8127D4; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:03:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08492-01; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:03:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D6A127C0; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:01:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFBF127C0 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:01:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08087-07 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:01:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lilly.ping.de (lilly.ping.de [83.97.42.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 777A31277F for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:01:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 17040 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 17:01:13 -0000 Original-Received: (ofmipd 83.97.40.151); 20 Jul 2005 17:00:51 -0000 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Lieblings-Musik: the_capricorns In-Reply-To: (Patrick Gundlach's message of "8 Jul 2005 21:23:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21507 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21507 Hello again, finally a follow-up. I have been working on my font installer for the last few (insert your favourite time period here). It has come to a state where it is actually usable. Although not very fancy yet. For those who don't know: it is a set of ruby libraries to create a font installer as well as some example installers. It can handle a single font (like afm2tfm) and a font family (like fontinst). Included in the distribution is a program called afm2tfm.rb. You might guess that this is meant as a replacement for afm2tfm (comes with dvips). It can do a bit more than afm2tfm, for example, it can also handle truetype fonts and keep kerning and ligature information in the tfm file. Another program included is 'rfont', a simple installer for font families (regular, bold, italic, ...). But for that program, I need some help for implementing ConTeXt font support. LaTeX support is already working (although very preliminary - I'd appreciate help there, too). Prerequisites: * ruby 1.8 (I guess, I have not tested it with 1.6) * pltotf, vptovf (come with your TeX distribution) * ttf2afm (pdftex), if you want to install truetype fonts * patience (not everything is bug free) * subversion if you want to stay up to date and can't wait a few hours for the nightly snapshot. This release is dedicated to Mojca and Nikolai (who have to wait for the changes in texshow-web - I was just too busy with this) > Here is the project page: https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/rfil/ > > and here is the 'home page' of the project: > https://rfil.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/ (documentation in rdoc format) There is also a mailinglist at that site. You can find it at the project page. Because the upload of the foundry server is not working for me at the moment, I have put the current cvs snapshot at . This will go away soon. You can always downoad the nightly svn snapshot. Any kind of feedback is welcome. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net