RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font

20 Mar 2005

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===== Original Message From Matthias Weber  =====
The following should work with the stable ConTeXt from January:
\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[pos]
\usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[times,12pt]
\starttext
\input knuth
\bigskip
\stoptext
On my system, using the above, the following happens (why??):

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This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) (format=cont-en 
2005.3.18)  20 MAR 2005 16:52
entering extended mode
\write18 enabled.
 (c:\CONTEXT\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx)
**&pdfetex/cont-en times.tex
(./times.tex

<snip>

(c:\CONTEXT\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex))
! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ptmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again>
                   \relax
\xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier
                                                  \let 
\localrelativefontsiz...

\fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname
                                                  \tryingfontfalse \fi
<inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize
                                                  \fi \iftryingfont 
\fontstr...

\synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies
                                                  \relax \fi 
\ifskipfontchar...
<argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle }
                                           \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle 
}\if...
...
l.4 \setupbodyfont[pos]

?
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But if I comment the first two lines, it works:

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%\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding]
%\setupbodyfont[pos]

\usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[times,12pt]

\starttext

\input knuth

\stoptext
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Another way:

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\definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] 
[default] [encoding=ec]

\switchtotypeface [times] [12pt,rm]

\starttext
\input knuth
\stoptext
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BTW, what are the lines

\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[pos]

for?

Best
Idris

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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font

ishamid