Re: [NTG-context] Using Postscript Type 1 fonts in ConTeXt/XeTeX?

20 Jan 2008

      Hi Wolfgang,

Thanks, I tried this. Getting loads of error messages though, see
below. They are repeated multiple times in Textmate, just once when I
try to issue the command "mktextfm Eco101Roman" from the command line.

     1  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map
source abbreviation E for Eco101Roman.
     2  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
     3  mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1;
nonstopmode; input Eco101Roman
     4  This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6)
     5
     6  kpathsea: Running mktexmf Eco101Roman
     7  ! I can't find file `Eco101Roman'.
     8  <*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Eco101Roman
     9
    10  Please type another input file name
    11  ! Emergency stop.
    12  <*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Eco101Roman
    13
    14  Transcript written on mfput.log.
    15  grep: Eco101Roman.log: No such file or directory
    16  mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1;
nonstopmode; input Eco101Roman' failed to make Eco101Roman.tfm.

This is in a freshly installed MacTex version, producing version
numbers as below:
     1  This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
     2   file:line:error style messages enabled.
     3   %&-line parsing enabled.
     4   (WARNING: translate-file "natural.tcx" ignored)
     5  entering extended mode
     6  (./hello.tex
     7
     8  ConTeXt  ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII  fmt: 2008.1.20  int:
english/english

Any idea?

Thanks
Roland

On 20/01/2008, Wolfgang Schuster  wrote:
...
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:21:32 +0100
Roland  wrote:
...
Hi,
I am fairly new to both ConTeXt (and XeTeX) but I've already been very
impressed with the active user community and the amount of
documentation available, as well as with the sheer userfriendliness of
ConTeXt when compared to LaTeX. Now I'm trying to get into fonts, but
activating a Postscript Type 1 font seems to go beyond my abilities
and the wiki documentation on
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_XeTeX . Perhaps anybody can
help?
I have a Postscript type 1 font family called Eco, consisting of
Eco101Roman, Eco102Italic, Eco301Bold and some others. FontBook shows
these names identically as PostScript name, Full Name and Family name
(which means Fontbook is unaware that they are a family, but this is
not the topic here).
The fonts can be used with any Mac application and they also work fine
in a LaTeX-fontspec-XeTeX combination: the following minimal LaTeX
file produces the text as desired in Eco101Roman.
1  %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
     2  %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
     3  \documentclass[12pt]{article}
     4  \usepackage{fontspec}
     5  \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}
     6  \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Eco101Roman}
     7  \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Skia}
     8  \setmonofont{Courier}
     9  \author{Roland}
    10  \title{XeTeX test}
    11
    12  \begin{document}
    13          \maketitle
    14          \section{This is a new section}
    15          Let's try to \emph{write} this.
    16
    17  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit,
    40  \end{document}
On ConTeXt however, I cannot get the font to be recognised. Please see
my testfile below, in which I tried to
(a) compile it with a self-installed TrueType font (which works)
(b) tried to select Eco101Roman directly (which produces a ** ERROR **
Invalid font) and
(c) tried to select the font through a typescript (which produces a
"Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found.")
What am I doing wrong? How can I get these fonts to work (and make
ConTeXt treat them as a proper family too?)
Looking forward to your ideas!
Roland
1  % ======================
     2  % = Various font tests =
     3  % ======================
     4
     5  %% TRUETYPE -- works fine
     6  %\definetypeface[myfont][rm][Xserif][LegacySerifLT-Book]
     7
     8  %% TYPE1 without typescript
     9  %\definetypeface[myfont][rm][Xserif][Eco101Roman]
    10  %% Produces
    11  %%
    12  %%      [1
    13  %%
    14  %%      ** ERROR ** Invalid font: -1 (1)
    15  %%
    16  %%
    17  %%
    18  %%      Output file removed.
    19
    20  %% TYPE1 with typescript
    21  \starttypescript[serif][eco][uc]
    22  \definefontsynonym
[Eco-Roman]['Eco101Roman:mapping=tex-text'][encoding=uc]
    23  \definefontsynonym  [Eco-Italic]
['Eco102Italic:mapping=tex-text'][encoding=uc]
    24  \definefontsynonym  [Eco-Bold]
['Eco301Bold:mapping=tex-text'][encoding=uc]
    25  \stoptypescript
    26  \usetypescript[eco]
    27  \definetypeface[myfont][rm][Xserif][Eco-Roman]
    28  %% produces
    29  %%      ./hello.tex:35: Font
\*myfont12ptrmtfrm*:=Eco-Roman:mapping=tex-text at 12.0pt
    30  %%      not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found.
    31  %%      <to be read again>
    32
    33
    34  \starttext
    35  \switchtobodyfont[myfont,18pt]
    36  \section{Testing font}
    37  This is plain text \bf{This is bold text} \it{This is bold italic text}
    38
    39  \stoptext
Try the following setup, please the field for the BoldItalic font by yourself
because you forgot to tell the name for the style.
\starttypescript[serif][eco]
\definefontsynonym[Serif]          [Eco-Regular]
\definefontsynonym[SerifBold]      [Eco-Bold]
\definefontsynonym[SerifItalic]    [Eco-Italic]
\definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][Eco-BoldItalic]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript[serif][eco]
\definefontsynonym[Eco-Regular]   [Eco101Roman]
\definefontsynonym[Eco-Bold]      [Eco301Bold]
\definefontsynonym[Eco-Italic]    [Eco102Italic]
\definefontsynonym[Eco-BoldItalic][...]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript[eco]
\definetypeface[\typescriptone][rm][serif][eco][default]
\stoptypescript
\usetypescript[eco]
\setupbodyfont[eco]
\starttext
normal text, {\bf bold text}, {\em italic text} and {\bi bolditalic text}.
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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