On Monday 10 February 2003 13:03, Maarten Sneep wrote:
Hello,
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Hans Hagen wrote:
At 12:58 PM 2/10/2003 +0100, Maarten Sneep wrote:
``Welcome to typeface hell'', describes my feelings correctly. I'm trying to use the free postscript fonts that come with teTeX (urw palatino, times, helvetica, courier and various others, you know the list) in ec encoding.
-- Never forget that Context uses pdfetex which derives from plain tex which uses the tex primitives. So you can always define a font using the \font statement and do font-switching in plain-tex mode. Indeed that is probably the best way to start off. It avoids massive frustration.
Of course it does not comport with many of the advanced features of Context so it is best just a stop-gap. But it relieves frustration and gets your project off the ground. \font\rm=pncr8r at 10pt will work, and now you have a Palatino Roman font for body text. No muss, no fuss, no misery. Just issue the command \rm when you want that font. This also works, although it is probably wrong :-) \definebodyfont[10pt,12pt,14pt,16pt][rm][tf=pncr8r sa 1, bf=pncb8r sa 1, it=pncri8r sa 1, sl=pncro8r sa 1, bs=pncbo8r sa 1, bi=pncbi8r sa 1] After you get to that point you can begin to explore the marvelous intricacies and idiosyncrasies of Context font handling in its full glory. But try something that works, first. John Culleton Subscribe to the Self_Publisher's Newsletter! Just send an email to selfpub@wexfordpress.com