On Tuesday 06 May 2003 02:04 pm, Adam Lindsay wrote:

Hello, John,

Good luck grappling with fonts. I think the hardest thing in terms of transferring font knowledge is that it consists of numerous little tricks along the way.

I *think* that you need at this point is: \usetypescript [berry] [\defaultencoding]

It's in the cont-sys file as a potential line to uncomment. You'll also want to choose something for the \setupencoding line, too.

I'm sorry I can't say for certain, but my TeXLive install is far from being virgin, at this point. (The hussy.)

Cheers, adam

I found not cont-sys but cont-sys.rme. I made the changes (uncommented the line and made the default coding 8r.) Then I copied cont-sys.rme to cont-sys (seem to remember that was necessary.) Still no help. Next I will try to eliminate all the synonym stuff and call for the font more directly. If that doesn't work I am back to the old plain tex way. John C. ____________________________________________________________ Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/

On Tuesday 06 May 2003 03:56 pm, Adam Lindsay wrote:

John Culleton said this at Tue, 6 May 2003 15:47:06 -0400: cont-sys.tex probably best to put it in tex/context/user/, also. And of course, run (sudo) texhash before continuing.

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I think you're close, and I'm now pretty convinced that Hans' font religion is a good, powerful way to go.

adam

It would be wonderful if I could only make it work. Should I try making everything ec instead of 8r? I am just stumbling around now. John C. ____________________________________________________________ Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/

At 16:12 06/05/2003 -0500, you wrote:

On Tue, 6 May 2003 17:00:30 -0400 John Culleton wrote:

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It would be wonderful if I could only make it work. Should I try making everything ec instead of 8r? I am just stumbling around now.

No, don't do that. Did you run texhash again after renaming cont-sys.rme to cont-sys.tex? Did you run it as root? Every time there is a file name change (add, delete, rename) in the tex directory tree, texhash must be run again.

As an aside, I've switched to TexLive recently and have wanted to add a section to my help page: "Using the standard fonts in ConTeXt without writing additional scripts." I think there are only a few that are predefined. I'll work on examples for them all, including the Palatino.

if there is interest, i can post a zip with the additional tfm files so that things work out the box -) 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Wed, 07 May 2003 09:41:14 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

if there is interest, i can post a zip with the additional tfm files so that things work out the box -)

I was thinking of breaking this into three levels: (1) Fonts that can be used from TexLive "out of the box", no additional scripting or installation required. (2) Fonts that can be accessed with new typescripts, which I would provide. This should include everything on TexLive. (3) Doing new installations with texfont. This shouldn't be necessary unless new encodings are needed. Would providing new tfms be a way of moving fonts from category #2 to #1? -Bill -- Sattre Press In the Quarter http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers info@sattre-press.com http://itq.sattre-press.com/

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 09:41:14AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:

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As an aside, I've switched to TexLive recently and have wanted to add a section to my help page: "Using the standard fonts in ConTeXt without writing additional scripts." I think there are only a few that are predefined. I'll work on examples for them all, including the Palatino.

if there is interest, i can post a zip with the additional tfm files so that things work out the box -)

I think lots of people would benefit. Come on :) /S

At 17:00 06/05/2003 -0400, John Culleton wrote:

On Tuesday 06 May 2003 03:56 pm, Adam Lindsay wrote:

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John Culleton said this at Tue, 6 May 2003 15:47:06 -0400: cont-sys.tex probably best to put it in tex/context/user/, also. And of course, run (sudo) texhash before continuing.

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I think you're close, and I'm now pretty convinced that Hans' font religion is a good, powerful way to go.

adam

It would be wonderful if I could only make it work. Should I try making everything ec instead of 8r? I am just stumbling around now.

either texnansi or ec, 8r is not that useful 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

On woensdag, mei 7, 2003, at 15:37 Europe/Amsterdam, Bill McClain wrote:

I expected \em to produce italic, but it is slanted instead.

This is the default on ConTeXt (ask Hnas why, if you really want to know why). You can change this with: \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic] Maarten