Re: [NTG-context] access to system fonts under MacOSX

21 Dec 2014

      On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:20:33 +0100, Pablo Rodriguez  wrote:
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On 12/21/2014 02:31 PM, j. van den hoff wrote:
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:26:29 +0100, Pablo Rodriguez   
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Hi Jörg,
I don’t have a Mac, but this works in ConTeXt:
\definefontfamily [mainface] [serif] [TeX Gyre Pagella]
\definefontfamily [mainface] [sans]  [Helvetica]
\definefontfamily [mainface] [mono]  [Courier]
\definefontfamily [mainface] [math]  [TeX Gyre Pagella Math]
\setupbodyfont[mainface]
I've now looked a bit closer: this works (on my Mac) _except_ for
the teletype font: `\tt{some text}' ends up being typeset in the
serif font. `Courier' is there, for sure (meaning: it is listed by
`mtxrun --script font...' but it does not work. on closer inspection,
the actually found fontfiles are `courier new.ttf' and specifying
[couriernew] _does_ work.
Hi Jörg,
\tt is a switch, so the right way to deploy it is:
{\tt this text should be typewritten text}
yes, that's right.
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I have just discovered that Courier doesn’t work on my system either. I
cannot find it.
Could you give the output from the following command?
$ mtxrun --script font --list --name --pattern=courier*
sure:

courier                    courier                    pcrr8a.afm
courierbold                courierbold                pcrb8a.afm
courierboldoblique         courierboldoblique         pcrbo8a.afm
couriermedium              courier                    pcrr8a.afm
couriernew                 couriernewpsmt              
/Library/Fonts/Courier New.ttf
couriernewbold             couriernewpsboldmt          
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Bold.ttf
couriernewbolditalic       couriernewpsbolditalicmt    
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Bold Italic.ttf
couriernewitalic           couriernewpsitalicmt        
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Italic.ttf
couriernewnormal           couriernewpsitalicmt        
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Italic.ttf
couriernewpsbolditalicmt   couriernewpsbolditalicmt    
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Bold Italic.ttf
couriernewpsboldmt         couriernewpsboldmt          
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Bold.ttf
couriernewpsitalicmt       couriernewpsitalicmt        
/Library/Fonts/Courier New Italic.ttf
couriernewpsmt             couriernewpsmt              
/Library/Fonts/Courier New.ttf
couriernewregular          couriernewpsmt              
/Library/Fonts/Courier New.ttf
courieroblique             courieroblique             pcrro8a.afm

as I wrote in the last mail, only the `courier new' fonts are represented  
by actual font-files it seems (don't know
what the *afm files are). so if only those
(and their abbreviations) were reported I would not have any problem. but  
as it stands, `courier' is reported
as well -- but does not map to any actual font-file.
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so it seems you are right regarding using the "full" names, e.g.
\definefontfamily [mainface] [sans]  [adventor]
does not work while
\definefontfamily [mainface] [sans]  [TeX Gyre Adventor]
does.
any ideas, why all this is happening?
\definefontfamily [mainface] [sans]  [texgyreadventor]
seems to be the right way to invoke the font.
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or: _how_ exactly can fonts be specified? how is the mapping from
symbolic names to actual font files performed. it seems, sometimes
symbolic (short) names work, sometimes they don't. so, is there some
prescription, what is the right (TM) way to do it?>
I think using full names is a good way to do it. But TeX Gyre Adventor
comes with ConTeXt. You don’t have it installed on your system.
yes, that I know. they are part of the texlive distribution I use.

thanks for your help,

joerg
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Pablo
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