On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:25 PM, John Culleton
On Saturday 19 July 2008 06:03:43 am Alan Stone wrote:
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Charles P. Schaum
wrote:
With Ubuntu and fonts there are several things going on.
Which begets the question...
Regarding font installation, detection and other (non font related) issues which occur recurrently when working with (Con)TeX(t), which GNU/Linux distribution(s) is(/are) most user-friendly ?
Alan
I just avoid font miseries by relying mostly on the \font primitive. The complexities of creating and using typescripts etc. take too much time and too much head scratching. I do use the Texfont utility to create the necessary font bits and pieces when I buy a new type 1 font.
Typescript for XeTeX and LuaTeX are written in a few minutes and you can use all font switches you can't use if you define them with \font.
All the aliases etc. in Context don't help me much. I simply define the needed fonts in the sizes I will use. If I need another size I just copy the \font statement, change the font name and change the size parameter. For nimbus bold condensed I end up with fonts named numbux nimbuy nimbua etc.
This is of course not the Context way, but it saves me time and grief.
I depend on texlive in my Slackware 12.1 distro. Slack comes with tetex but AFAIK that is no longer updated. Therefore I don't bother to include it when building Slack. I install texlive from the cdr and then modify /etc/profile by adding /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux: to the PATH= string. Thus far the versions of Context (mkii) and pdftex etc. found on texlive have been stable and reliable.
Wolfgang