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.
I thinks I followed the instructions correctly, but still no luck. I'm using teTeX 2.0 with the TeXLive binaries (the ``Gerben Wierda'' distribution) on Mac OS X 10.2.3 (Jaguar). The frustrating bit is that in LaTeX everything comes preconfigured, but for ConTeXt I have to do it myself. I also use this as a testcase before buying the lucida typefaces (I want to be very sure I can install my fonts before shelling out the money).
Here's a summary of what I've tried and noticed:
1 - I've used texfont on the type-ftm.dat file in the default installation of the distribution. This fails, because the ec.enc file isn't found. This seems correct, as it is named EC.enc (note that this is on hfs, a case insensitive system). I renamed the file to ec.enc and tried again.
strange, i noticed some problems with the texnansi vector (different versions) btu not with ec
I just checked a recent version of SuSE linux (8.1), which still uses a beat of teTeX 2, where I find ./dvips/base/EC.enc in the texmf tree.
2 - This time the encoding vector is found, and some files are generated. However I get a nice bunch of rectangles, I assume mean that some glyphs are missing. In fact I think the only glyphs that showed up are `borrowed' from Computer Modern.
are you sure that you said \useencodign [ec] ?
Where should I have said that? (so apparently I didn't follow the instructions...)
My direct questions: a - Did anyone succeed in using the free postscript fonts on Mac OS X, using a distribution that I use (i.e. the most recent version)
all these fonts should work ok, did you try
\usetypescript [berry] [ec] \setupencoding[default=ec]
I'll try again this evening. What should be the extra command for using the standard postscript fonts, is that still \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt]?
c - Did you experience the same EC.enc vs ec.enc naming problem?
this is new to me, in my opinion all filenames should be lowercase
There is an cork.enc file. Since the ec encoding is also known as the Cork encoding, this might be something. It seems to be something in the new teTeX, unrelated to the Mac.
d - Do other platforms have the same problems with teTeX 2.0 (Hans: What version of teTeX are you using on your linux system, since at your place it obviously works ;-)
tex live
but, there are mac users on this list so ...
I'll wait and see if some of them show up.