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Beste ConTeXt gebruikers, Ik worstel al enige tijd met fonts in ConTeXt, en moet tot de conclusie komen dat ik er niets van begrijp, sorry! Heb ook geprobeerd diverse handleidingen m.b.t. fonts, zoals `Fonts in ConTeXt' door te spitten, maar ben hierin eveneens hopeloos vast gelopen. Afm-, tfm- en mapfiles voor mij ondoorgrondelijk! Ben er nog nooit in geslaagd een ander font te gebruiken dan het standaard font! Ik pas momenteel TeXLive 2003 toe. Is er iemand die op een simpele manier kan aangeven hoe ik dat werkend kan krijgen, zonder direct in jargon te vervallen? Ik krijg het Palatino font zoals bijvoorbeeld beschreven op pag. 91 van MAPS (najaar 2004) domweg niet werkend. Het boekje met al die mooie font voorbeelden is erg fraai, maar mij is het nog nooit gelukt een letter hiervan te produceren! En dit alles moet toch met de standaard TeXLive distributie makkelijk kunnen, zo begrijp ik. Ik ben onder de indruk van de kwaliteit van TeX, en dat is precies de reden waarom ik het gebruik! Maar dat gedoe met fonts maakt mij radeloos! Mijn laatste hoop is gevestigd op dit discussie-medium, om er achter te komen of ik de enige ben die dit probleem niet onder de knie weet te krijgen! Kan iemand mij op weg helpen, om dit probleem te begrijpen, en uiteindelijk op te lossen? Bij voorbaat dank! M.vr.gr., Geert -- Geert C.H.M. Verhaag St. Jorisstraat 29 5954 AN Beesel NETHERLANDS Tel.: (+31)-774742493, E-mail: verhaaggchm@ision.nl
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G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote:
Beste ConTeXt gebruikers,
Ik worstel al enige tijd met fonts in ConTeXt, en moet tot de conclusie komen dat ik er niets van begrijp, sorry!
Heb ook geprobeerd diverse handleidingen m.b.t. fonts, zoals `Fonts in ConTeXt' door te spitten, maar ben hierin eveneens hopeloos vast gelopen. Afm-, tfm- en mapfiles voor mij ondoorgrondelijk!
Ben er nog nooit in geslaagd een ander font te gebruiken dan het standaard font! Ik pas momenteel TeXLive 2003 toe.
Is er iemand die op een simpele manier kan aangeven hoe ik dat werkend kan krijgen, zonder direct in jargon te vervallen?
Ik krijg het Palatino font zoals bijvoorbeeld beschreven op pag. 91 van MAPS (najaar 2004) domweg niet werkend. Het boekje met al die mooie font voorbeelden is erg fraai, maar mij is het nog nooit gelukt een letter hiervan te produceren! En dit alles moet toch met de standaard TeXLive distributie makkelijk kunnen, zo begrijp ik.
Ik ben onder de indruk van de kwaliteit van TeX, en dat is precies de reden waarom ik het gebruik! Maar dat gedoe met fonts maakt mij radeloos!
Mijn laatste hoop is gevestigd op dit discussie-medium, om er achter te komen of ik de enige ben die dit probleem niet onder de knie weet te krijgen!
Kan iemand mij op weg helpen, om dit probleem te begrijpen, en uiteindelijk op te lossen?
what does the following file produce? (log file etc) \setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescript[berry][ec] \setupencoding[ec] \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[palatino] \starttext test \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Hans Hagen wrote:
what does the following file produce? (log file etc)
\setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescript[berry][ec] \setupencoding[ec] \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[palatino]
\starttext
test
\stoptext
.....
Hans,
I've decided to send you the complete file (test.log)! You'll find it
attached!
I used the command: texexec --pdf test to produce it. By the way I'm
running Debian 3.0r Linux!
Regards,
Geert
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Geert C.H.M. Verhaag
St. Jorisstraat 29
5954 AN Beesel
NETHERLANDS
Tel.: (+31)-774742493, E-mail: verhaaggchm@ision.nl
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2) (format=cont-en 2004.5.1) 7 FEB 2005 17:48
entering extended mode
%&-line parsing enabled.
(/usr/TeX/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
**&cont-en test.tex
(./test.tex{/usr/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.25 fmt: 2004.5.1 int: english mes: english
language : language en is active
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G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote:
I've decided to send you the complete file (test.log)! You'll find it attached!
I used the command: texexec --pdf test to produce it. By the way I'm running Debian 3.0r Linux!
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2) (format=cont-en 2004.5.1) 7 FEB 2005 17:48 entering extended mode %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/TeX/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx) **&cont-en test.tex (./test.tex{/usr/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.25 fmt: 2004.5.1 int: english mes: english language : language en is active quite ancient ... (we now have pdftex > 1.20) - remove the debian tex - install tetex (3 beta) - if needed update context or - fetch the minimal context linux tree from our website (run setuptex in the root of it to enable that tree) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Hans Hagen wrote:
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quite ancient ... (we now have pdftex > 1.20)
- remove the debian tex - install tetex (3 beta) - if needed update context
or
- fetch the minimal context linux tree from our website
(run setuptex in the root of it to enable that tree)
I'm afraid that I don't understand this! I'm not using Debian TeX, but installed TeXLive Ed.9 (2003) on my Debian (3.0r) based Linux box. Am I right in saying that an installation of ConTeXt from TeXLive is incomplete? Do I really have to fetch the latest ConTeXt from PRAGMA ADE to get those fonts working? Do I perhaps have to configure ConTeXt more before being able to use those fonts? Well fetching large files from Internet is very time consuming when using a simple modem, which I do, with an average speed of around 4Kbytes/sec! So this isn't really an option. Isn't it possible to create the missing tfm files, which ConTeXt uses, from the fonts already present in /usr/TeX/texmf/fonts? What if I install TeXLive 2004? Regards, Geert -- Geert C.H.M. Verhaag St. Jorisstraat 29 5954 AN Beesel NETHERLANDS Tel.: (+31)-774742493, E-mail: verhaaggchm@ision.nl
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G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
.....
quite ancient ... (we now have pdftex > 1.20)
- remove the debian tex - install tetex (3 beta) - if needed update context
or
- fetch the minimal context linux tree from our website
(run setuptex in the root of it to enable that tree)
I'm afraid that I don't understand this! I'm not using Debian TeX, but installed TeXLive Ed.9 (2003) on my Debian (3.0r) based Linux box.
Am I right in saying that an installation of ConTeXt from TeXLive is incomplete? Do I really have to fetch the latest ConTeXt from PRAGMA ADE
TeX Live 2003 is 1.5 year old distribution. It is very fresh for (plain)TeX but mediaeval for ConTeXt. More over you can not combine TeX Live 2003 with today ConTeXt (if you have no deep insight).
What if I install TeXLive 2004?
Yes that is the solution (we have already recommended). Install TeX Live 2004 and (optionally) fresh ConTeXt (cont-tmf.zip). Vit
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G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote:
I'm afraid that I don't understand this! I'm not using Debian TeX, but installed TeXLive Ed.9 (2003) on my Debian (3.0r) based Linux box.
Am I right in saying that an installation of ConTeXt from TeXLive is incomplete? Do I really have to fetch the latest ConTeXt from PRAGMA ADE to get those fonts working? Do I perhaps have to configure ConTeXt more before being able to use those fonts?
normally that should work, however - sometimes linxu distributions have preinstalled tex's or have the profiles adapted for tex installations, and that may clash - there have been some fundamental non compatible changed in the tex tree and extensions to pdftex so it's best not to mix old and new, i.e. best to update to the latest greatest
Well fetching large files from Internet is very time consuming when using a simple modem, which I do, with an average speed of around 4Kbytes/sec! So this isn't really an option.
actually, when you would install the minumal tree, you could use rsync to synchronize the differences and that is pretty fast
Isn't it possible to create the missing tfm files, which ConTeXt uses, from the fonts already present in /usr/TeX/texmf/fonts?
What if I install TeXLive 2004?
that should work ok; there is a special context tree on the dvd as well, with all documentation and such so that saves you some bandwidth Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Hans Hagen wrote
What if I install TeXLive 2004?
that should work ok; there is a special context tree on the dvd as well, with all documentation and such so that saves you some bandwidth
Okay, I've removed my old TeX and installed TeXLive 2004 from CD. Your test program works fine with the palatino font. However when I try bookman the following error appears in the log file: (/usr/TeX/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex) bodyfont : unknown variant bookman The same happens with for example the charter font! Can this be caused by the fact that I didn't install the Extra Fonts collection from TeXLive 2004? Regards, Geert -- Geert C.H.M. Verhaag St. Jorisstraat 29 5954 AN Beesel NETHERLANDS Tel.: (+31)-774742493, E-mail: verhaaggchm@ision.nl
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G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote:
The same happens with for example the charter font! Can this be caused by the fact that I didn't install the Extra Fonts collection from TeXLive 2004?
see type-exa.tex for how palatino is defined; bookman is a stand alone font (no math and such), so i didn't provide a preset for that, \definetypeface[bookman][rm][serif][bookman][default][encoding=\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[bookman] is the kind of code you're looking for, so, you can combine all kind of fonts in a typeface collection. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Hans, Vit and VnPenguin, Thanks for helping me with getting the Palatino font work! Regards, Geert -- Geert C.H.M. Verhaag St. Jorisstraat 29 5954 AN Beesel NETHERLANDS Tel.: (+31)-774742493, E-mail: verhaaggchm@ision.nl
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