April 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

RE: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi Peter, >===== Original Message From Peter Münster <pmlists(a)free.fr> ===== >On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > >> 3. from /temp>, run >> >> texfont --ma --in --ve=urw --co=garamond --show > >Hello Idris, >with this command, I get the following error (I'm using teTeX-3.0): >processing aborted : unknown tex root There is a unix script in mswincontext.zip that I suppose is also in the tetex package: setuptex.csh. I don't know how 2 use it (I still live in the Evil Empire for now-<) but usually I run setuptex.bat before starting the context utilities; otherwise I get errors like the above. > >Then I tried >texfont --fontroot=/opt/teTeX/texmf-dist/fonts --ma --in --ve=urw >--co=garamond --show > >This produces the following error: >(/opt/teTeX/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/s-fnt-01.tex) >kpathsea: Running mktextfm texnansi-ugmm8a >mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfzzz; mag:=1; >nonstopmode; input texnansi-ugmm8a >This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4) > >kpathsea: Running mktexmf texnansi-ugmm8a >! I can't find file `texnansi-ugmm8a'. I'm not sure, did you texhash (although texfont should have done that for you)? Did TeXFont at least install the font for you, before trying to compile the show file? Check to see if it installed, e.g. the 8 tfms in e.g. /texmf-fonts/fonts/tfm/urw/garamond > >So I tried step 4: > >> 4. If texfont does not work, you will have to do more work-> the zip package >> contains tfms etc, and here is a map file you will need: > >I installed this mapfile in /opt/teTeX/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context > >> % You need to add the following line to pdftex.cfg: >> % >> % map +texnansi-urw-garamond.map >> % >> % Alternatively in your TeX source you can say: >> % >> % \pdf {+texnansi-urw-garamond.map} > >I suppose, you mean \pdfmapfile Well, I just copied the map file created by texfont;-) <snip> >Perhaps I have to rename the tfm files? Yes, I just checked the garamond distribution; you will have to rename them. Not only that, but texfont creates 8 tfm files (four raw and four virtual fonts I presume): texnansi-raw-ugmm8a.tfm, etc texnansi-ugmm8a.tfm, etc So step four is really a nightmare, I should have actually tried it before recommending it, sorry.. <snip> >Do you have any idea, what could be wrong on my system? Ciro uses teTeX and got this to work; maybe he has some idea. My own suggestion is to make sure you are using the latest context tetex distribution (3-16-05 last I checked), setuptex.csh, hash, and get texfont working. Sorry I cannot be of more help... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Rob Ermers said this at Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:03:24 +0200: > >>I completely agree. Context works fine but, like you, I have not >>succeeded in installing any new font thusfar. > >Okay, I get the message: there are quite a few frustrated would-be font >users out there. I see it as being something that someone can understand >(and explain) fairly well in the abstract, but the details throw up >distribution-specific problems. Not only that, Adam, but the configuration issues involve so much minutae that it is very easy to make simple mistakes that cause, e.g, typescripts to fail. As Ciro suggested, what what would be useful is a gui that completely automates the process and that asks all relevant questions and generates everything ConTeXt needs to install and run Latin fonts, including expert fonts like Minion.**** (Maybe oneday the gui can be extended for Chinese, Arabic, etc.) On the other hand, I did manage to get a virtual font created by fontinst (old style numeral cmr) to work in ConTeXt without using any of the ConTeXt-specific utilities. I wrote the typescript entirely from scratch, with optical scaling and all; if that complicated set of typefaces could work, any Latin font should work. But debugging this sort of thing may take time, which can be frustrating. ****Qt4.0 will be gpl, I'd love to see e.g., an elegant crossplatform Qt/Ruby application that does this:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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supp-vis and pdfetex
by Patrick Gundlach 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hello, this is slightly off-topic: when using supp-vis in a plain-tex document, it runs ok with normal TeX, but not with pdfetex: \input supp-vis Hello \TeX! \bye -------------------------------------------------- Running `PDFTeX' on `test' with ``pdftex "\nonstopmode\input test.tex"'' This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./test.tex (/opt/tetex/3.0/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-vis.tex (/opt/tetex/3.0/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26) ) loading : Context Support Macros / Visualization ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \def l.424 \unexpanded\def \ruledhbox Runaway text? \def \ruledhbox {\normalhbox \bgroup \dowithnextbox {\makeruledbox \nextbox \ET [....] -------------------------------------------------- Any way around this? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

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RE: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From ciro(a)kavyata.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Idris, >I just noticed that your type-ugm.tex file has the italic and bold >faces swapped. >Just to let you know. Thnx, I'll fix it. Since you both use teTeX, maybe you could help Peter get his Garamond working too:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi Adam, >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >And Idris, it's here: ><http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/garamond/> Ah! From the ctan dates, it appears this font was added a while after my TeXLive version (from last summer; time to update:-<<). Thnx a lot for pointing out this location. Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Hi again... >===== Original Message From ciro(a)kavyata.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Idris, >thank you for your interest. I don't have setuptex in my linux >system... maybe this is >a windows utility. there is setuptex.sh for Linux, I believe. > >Concerning Garamond, <snip> > I'll keep trying >and let you >know if find how to activate them... Thnx, please do;-) I scanned my TeXLive installation (from last July; I installed all font packages I think) and could not find any reference to Garamond at all. I even checked the TeXLive setup files. Anyway, Even if you have the afm files, I suspect you have to buy Garamond: http://semantics-online.org/geek/2003/09/how_to_install_adobe_garamond_for_… Adam Lndsay has some comments there; maybe he knows something about this? But if you find another way let me know! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Bug: \placefigure in \endnote
by Gerben Wierda 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

A \placefigure in \endnote results in a figure in the main text, not the end notes. G

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RE: My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by 李树钧 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hi, Thank Idris Samawi Hamid and Geert for their help on clarifying this problem. Today I saw a solution from a Chinese TeXer, and now I understand why the Type1 fonts cannot be recognized. To make ConTeXt support Chinese, I maintain a file named tex\contex\user\cont-sys.tex, which is a modifed copy of texmf\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme. In this file, there are the following codes: ....... \resetmapfiles \donefalse \ifx\pdftexversion\undefined \else \ifnum\number\pdftexversion>119 \donetrue \fi \fi \ifdone \loadmapfile[original-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-ams-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-public-lm.map] \else \loadmapfile[original-base.map] \loadmapfile[texnansi-base.map] \loadmapfile[ec-base.map] \loadmapfile[qx-base.map] \loadmapfile[t5-base.map] %loadmapfile[il2-base.map] %loadmapfile[pl0-base.map] \loadmapfile[8r-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-ams-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-ams-euler.map] \loadmapfile[original-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[texnansi-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[ec-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[qx-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[t5-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[pl0-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[il2-public-lm.map] \fi ....... These codes let ConTeXt load the map files for pdftex, so psfonts.map is omitted by ConTeXt. As a result, we have two solutions to overcome this problem: 1. comment all the above codes, and let ConTeXt to read font maps via pdftex; 2. add a line "\loadmapfile[xxx.map]" to explicitly load the required map, just as we should do in the beginning of a tex file (Geert's solution). Hope the above information is useful for other ConTeXters. Shujun _________________________________________________________________ 与联机的朋友进行交流，请使用 MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn

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Beginner's font flop fixed: fantastic!
by Paul R Martin 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Dear ConTeXters, This message is to record my thanks to Thomas A.Schmitz for the solution to my font flop, and to Otared Kavian and Hans Hagen for helpful comments. I've planted the solution in the context garden at <http://contextgarden.net/Talk:My_Way>. If I hear voices of encouragement I could write up the solution as a My Way. Would this sort of problem be common enough to make such a document useful for beginners, or should I just get back to more important things such as finding out what a_foekepot_ looks like? Yours, PRM

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scaling symbols
by Janko Hauser 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hello I followed Adams nice way, to include unicode symbols. Now I want to ask, how these can be scaled, so that they can be used more like small figures. Any hints? TIA, __Janko Hauser

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