On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Mohamed Bana wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Hi, please address questions to the mailing-list, not to me personally.
1. when is the last time you tried to install a font manually using texfont? i've been trying to get install warnockpro and cronospro - both of which are .otf - but i've had no lack.
texfont --makepath --install --fontroot=`pwd` --vendor=adobe -- co=warnockpro --en=texnansi --lcdf --preproc -- variant=liga,kern,smcp,onum
the last time i checked texfont was generating an empty map file.
texfont is really old, it predates opentype fonts, so you can't expect it to handle such fonts. It was a brave and wonderful effort to automate installation of fonts, but I gave up using it - not because texfont itself is bad, but because so many fonts are just faulty and/ or idiosyncratic, and automatization just can't handle all these eceptions. I always had to double-check and edit files by hand, so I decided to go for a manual process. The --lcdf switch was added by Adam Lindsay, who also wrote a short article about otf and ConTeXt: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/lindsay/lindsay.pdf Too bad Adam isn't active anymore, he was a great help in ConTeXt development. If you search the mailing list archive for "texfont lcdf," you will see that the problem with the empty map file is common and was never really solved, AFAIK. So you have several options: 1. install the fonts manually 2. use texfont and write the map file manually 3. try Patrick's otfinst http://wiki.contextgarden.net/otfinst 4. I have a set of support files for using Cronos and Warnock with pdftex; if you want, I can make a zip and send them to you (not before Thursday, however).
the free version of lucida (.ttf) that ship with Java files worked fine
2. is there someone i must do to get to dashes working properly? as in, --- doesn't generate the right dash nor does --.
These are defined as ligatures in the tfm/vf files. Doesn't texfont produce vpl-files as an intermediate format? You could open those and check whether the ligature is defined. It probably isn't, and then you have to hunt down the reason or add it manually... Good luck Thomas