At 04:56 PM 12/15/2002 +0900, you wrote:

A few weeks back, there was a short exchange on this list regarding utilities for preparing chinese fonts for ConTeXt. One of the postings provided a link to some new utilities. I've since downloaded the file there (gbkfonts-linux-0.2.tar.gz) but am unsure as to how to proceed. If anyone with experience in this area could provide some advice, I'd appreciate it.

i suggest that you contact: Cho, Jin-Hwan < chofchof@ktug.or.kr> Lei Wang they probably can help you out; the best way to solve these problems is to make sure that on the next tex-live the right resources / tools (font splitters and so) are distributed as well. 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 Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Matthew Huggett told this:

A few weeks back, there was a short exchange on this list regarding utilities for preparing chinese fonts for ConTeXt. One of the postings provided a link to some new utilities. I've since downloaded the file there (gbkfonts-linux-0.2.tar.gz) but am unsure as to how to proceed. If anyone with experience in this area could provide some advice, I'd appreciate it.

Have you got any Chinese fonts that work for ConTeXt? If not, you can try, ftp.ctex.org to get some fonts. There is no need to use gbkfonts. For simplified chinese, you can, 1. Get the truetype fonts, htfs.ttf, hthei.ttf, htkai.ttf and htsong.ttf from ftp://ftp.ctex.org/pub/tex/fonts/truetype/ttf/. 2. Get corresponding tfm file, gbfs.zip, gbhei.zip, gbkai.zip and gbsong.zip from ftp://ftp.ctex.org/pub/tex/fonts/truetype/for_pdftex/tfm. 3. Get the enc file, Gbk.zip from ftp://ftp.ctex.org/pub/tex/fonts/truetype/for_pdftex/enc_map. 4. Get the map file, map.zip, from above location. Then read the mchinese.pdf, put those files in the right location and you can then process Chinese in context (to produce pdf file). The above procedure works because those fonts have already been defined in font-chi.tex. However, I have trouble installing new Chinese fonts. I got fzhcjw.ttf, ran 'gbkfonts -name fzhc -prefix gbk fzhcjw.ttf fzhc' which resulted in the tfm, enc and map files, as well as pfb for use with dvips. It also generated a fd file for use with LaTeX. I can then use the font with CJK-LaTeX. But I can't use it in ConTeXt. I tried, \definefontsynonym [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoRegular] [gbkfzhc] [encoding=gbk] \definefontsynonym [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoSlanted] [gbkfzhcsl] [encoding=gbk] \definefontsynonym [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoItalic] [gbkfzhcsl] [encoding=gbk] \definefontsynonym [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoBold] [gbkfzhc] [encoding=gbk] \definefontsynonym [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoBoldSlanted][gbkfzhcsl][encoding=gbk ] \definefontsynonym [SimplifiedChineseHangCaoBoldItalic] [gbkfzhcsl][encoding=gbk ] \defineunicodefont [SimHangCao] [SimplifiedChineseHangCao] [chinese] Then when I tried to use \SimHangCao I was told that it is undefined command. The other fonts in the font-chi file, such as \SimFangSong etc, do work. Any suggestions? Michael -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Na Li Email: lina@u.washington.edu Department of Biostatistics, Box 357232 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------