Re: [NTG-context] Metafont and Context

At 16:10 20/05/2003 -0500, you wrote:

On Sun, 18 May 2003 22:40:48 +0200 "Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" wrote:

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Has anybody written typescripts for one of the Metafonts available at CTAN and can send me an example or two?

I've added a Metafont example to my page:

http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#newfont-mf

I don't know much about Metafont, and your comments (as always) are welcome.

In particular, I have two questions:

(1) I don't specify encoding, because I'm not sure how encoding interacts with MF. Is it even required? The typescript works without encoding references.

depends on the font, from the perspective of tex only the tfm matters (not the pk/pfb/ttf); the only tricky thing with mf files is that you may need to generate a lot of sizes

(2) texexec + pdftex do not generate .pk files like xdvi does. Is that an option I've missed? In the example I give I first create a .dvi version of the file and have xdvi create the .pk files, which then can be read by pdftex.

this depends on your pdftex configuration; pdftex can handle pfb/ttf, pk, and (from past times) glyph containers Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------