Hi Adam, Hans... ...and all of you who are trying to help us solve (and maybe understand) the intricacies of font management! Here is what I did: on Saturday I tried to answer David Rogers' question and so typeset an example file I had, before sending him. Unfortunately everything went wrong for some reasons and so I gave up. After Adam's and Hans' suggestion right this afternoon, I uninstalled my gwTeX, as well as ConTeXt and reinstalled everything anew. I did not, and I do not have pdftex.map in */fonts/map/*/context/ and nevertheless when I tried to typeset my minimal sample file: % times-bad.tex \usetypescript [adobekb] [\defaultencoding] \usetypescript [postscript][\defaultencoding] %\setupbodyfont [postscript] % with or without this line \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext on my "virgin" installation, something goes wrong and the log shows the following: [...snip...] Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+14/72 --dpi 86 ptmr8r mktexpk: Running gsftopk ptmr8r 86 gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2 Process aborted /813 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [11] [12] [14] [15] [16] [17] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41Terminated ("Terminated" because I aborted the process). I am not at all familiar with mktexpk (I even ignored its exisetnce up to now...), but the option --bpdi 72 makes me think it is building a "72 dots per inch" font which we all hate, even after magnification --mag 1+14/72... I should also say that this does not infer with math fonts which appear correctly as one may see from the PDF attachments I sent (and which went finally through the list's moderator). Thanks again for your help: OK On 4 juil. 2005, at 17:11, Adam Lindsay wrote:
Hi Otared,
What you mention sounds like a bug propagated by Hans last month. Take a look at this thread: <http://archive.contextgarden.net/thread/ 20050610.172825.65f0c37f.html#20050610.172825.65f0c37f>
(Assuming you're comfortable with the CLI, I'd suggest verifying the bad file by navigating to /usr/local/teTeX/share or wherever your tex trees live, and looking for the file: ls */fonts/map/*/context/pdftex.map
If a file is returned, delete it (and mktexlsr again).
If nothing is returned, then never mind, it's something else on your system.
One brief comment on your font selection below:
Otared Kavian said this at Mon, 4 Jul 2005 16:28:31 +0200:
\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[postscript] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] %or helvetica, or palatino \setupbodyfont[times,12pt]
The [postscript] line in the above example is unnecessary. I'd suggest cutting it out entirely. With a properly-configured system, the three remaining lines should give you the results you expect.
adam --