Yue Wang wrote:
There are also LinoType, MonoType and ITC pack installed on my machine. So there are thousands and thousands fonts there. Without an automatic font selecting mechanism / script, it will be very difficulty to do that.
ConTeXt's font naming mechanism is very different with commercial fonts. digital fonts themselves have their own distinct naming conventions. For example, Frutiger's fonts use numbers to define the weight/style of the font family.
not only names of files, but also internal names are often inconsistent which is why in mkiv every lookup is kind of normalized; another problem is that there can be several weights (sets) but some kind of structured approach (database, preview, etc) can b ehandy Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------