On 11/4/2013 4:56 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 11/4/2013 3:34 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
- you can find Gentium at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/gentium-tug (also in TeX Live and in the ConTeXt distribution) Thank you ... that was key information I didn't have. I was instead downloading the TTF files from sil.org. That TTF should work as well. The only difference is that you might need slightly different commands to set it up (there were recent changes/improvements in that, other users should tell you how exactly
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: that can be done).
I will look for that, because it turns out that I still need to use a TTF font. Gentium Plus does not include bold and bold-italic weights, and Gentium Basic doesn't include all the characters ranges I need. We have a customized version of Gentium Basic with bold weight, with an extra character added, and it's a TTF. We had it working with mkii but not yet with mkiv.
When you say "out of the box", I think you're referring to the gentium-tug package box, not the ConTeXt box... in other words, I should not expect Gentium to work just because I installed ConTeXt; I have to also install gentium-tug, right? The font is installed by default when installing the ConTeXt distribution. I thought it was also installed by default with the ConTeXt scheme in TeX Live, but apparently I was wrong. I can fix this. The scheme already contains a bunch of nice fonts and Gentium could/probably should be among them.
Just to confirm the above: After installing TeX Live context scheme on Linux, Gentium was not in my names.tma. And when I tried to use \setmainfont[Gentium], I got errors, 'simplefonts > font ''gentium'' not found'. After installing the gentium-tug package (sudo /usr/local/bin/tlmgr install gentium-tug), and compiling a .tex file using \setmainfont[Gentium], the errors went away, and my names.tma now includes several variants of Gentium. At no point did I run mtxrun (knowingly). On the other hand, on Windows, I had installed TeX Live context scheme as well, and have not installed gentium-tug. But I did install Gentium as an OS font (using TTF files). I then ran mtxrun --generate (as suggested by Hans), and after that, gentium* showed up in names.tma, and I was then able to successfully compile a .tex file using \setmainfont[Gentium] with mkiv context. (But that didn't work before I ran mtxrun --generate.) Just a couple of data points in case they're relevant. Lars