From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21144 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Confusion with font instructions Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:07:45 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20050704103304.25666@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120489696 18180 80.91.229.2 (4 Jul 2005 15:08:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 15:08:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jul 04 17:08:14 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 1DpSYA-0006eo-1x for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:07:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB10B127C4; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:07:56 +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 07133-03; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:07:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA900127BF; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:07:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810E2127BF for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:07:50 +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 07060-04-7 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:07:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AAF4127BA for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:07:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [64.180.21.229] by priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20050704150747.ENJD14584.priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net@[64.180.21.229]> for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:07:47 -0600 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: <20050704103304.25666@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Mailsmith 2.1.5 (Blindsider) 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:21144 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21144 Adam Lindsay wrote: >Patrick Gundlach said this at Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:54:06 +0200: > >>Hello David, >> >>> I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal. >> >>This questions can also come from more experienced users :) >> >>> Which set of instructions should I follow, in order to allow use of >>> Palatino or Times, on Mac OS X, Gerben Wierda's TeX distribution, latest >>> ConTeXt installed?=20 >> >>OK, do you have LaTeX working? Then you can use the standard >>postscript fonts for ConTeXt as well. Have a look at the (yet >>unfinished page) >> >>http://contextgarden.net/Psnfss > >Sadly, that page relies on type-pre, which is deprecated! >(Yes, the situation changes again.) > >So, the situation should now be: > >% Times, Helvetica, Courier: >\usetypescript [adobekb] [\defaultencoding] % default=3Dec >\usetypescript [postscript][\defaultencoding] >\setupbodyfont [postscript] OK, I tried this setup, and ConTeXt ran without stopping to complain, but (as Otared described, I guess) the font actually produced is very jaggy, both on screen and in print. My nostalgia for dot matrix printers is not as great as one might suppose. :-) And I thought I was just asking for a shortcut answer to a dumb question! Thanks for the help David