From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/989 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: the world of fonts ([David Carlisle] Re: questions) Date: 06 Oct 1999 14:18:33 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391830 28812 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXt mailing list Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:989 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:989 --=-=-= I saw this post in the pdftex mailing list: --=-=-= Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from tug.org (IDENT:daemon@tug.org [158.121.106.10]) by sage.coe.uga.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA08243 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:21:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by tug.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA03459 for pdftex-list; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:39:16 -0400 Received: from nag.co.uk (openmath.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.16]) by tug.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA03455 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:39:12 -0400 Received: (from davidc@localhost) by nag.co.uk (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) id OAA21656; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:35:11 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:35:11 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199910041335.OAA21656@nag.co.uk> From: David Carlisle To: mikes@athabascau.ca CC: oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de, pdftex@tug.org In-reply-to: <14328.44612.542110.290133@edlo1.ab.wave.home.com> (message from Mike Sosteric on Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:40:20 -0600 (MDT)) Subject: Re: questions References: <14328.44612.542110.290133@edlo1.ab.wave.home.com> Sender: owner-pdftex@tug.org Precedence: bulk > The problem, I think, would be having to make sure > the new quotes match up in that many documents. In that case use T1 encoding and get straight quotes. since this is the pdftex list, beware that the default T1 encoded computer modern fonts are ec fonts which are not freely available in type1 form. You can use the ae package to get round this or use a font set other than computer modern, eg \usepackage{times} David --=-=-= It reminds me of a situation I'm now in. There is a document that uses metapost to typeset text on top of another metapost image (using plain tex--I did this project before I started using context). I'm using the cmtt10 font so that I can count on some relation between the length of the text and the space it will require, and I'm handling line-breaking manually (with perl). Now the users would like a bolder font. I don't see a cmttbx10 or anything. I know that there is much more to fonts than I now know. I hear people talking about virtual fonts and all kinds of stuff. Maybe I could get a bolder teletype font by learning more about fonts in general. How could I learn about ways to use other (preferably free) fonts with TeX in such a way that I'll also be able to apply this new learning to context, which I'm moving toward more and more? -- --Ed Cashin ecashin@coe.uga.edu --=-=-=--