Hi all, I am trying to use the Bitstream Charter as a font. Unluckily, all the umlauts fail to appear. Here is how I do it: \definefont[bchr][bchr8t at 12pt] \starttext \bchr \"a \"o \"u \SS{} \stoptext Any idea why that happens? Could someone explain to me (or point me to some documentation) on what exactly happens when I do something like the above? Or is there a better way to do it (I guess so...)? Greetings, Alex
Hi Alexander,
I am trying to use the Bitstream Charter as a font. Unluckily, all the umlauts fail to appear. Here is how I do it:
\definefont[bchr][bchr8t at 12pt] \starttext \bchr \"a \"o \"u \SS{} \stoptext
I am for sure no font guru. I would suggest you to install the charter fonts with texfont. What I have done in the last quarter of an hour: Create a directory \texmf\fonts\source\bitstrea\charter Copy the *.afm and *.pfb files to that directory. Copy the attached file type-charter.dat to that directory (this is the charter-section form type-tmf.dat provided by Hans). Copy texnansi.enc from the dvips environment to that directory. open a Dos box and run texfont --batch type-charter.dat Add the map file to pdftex.cfg: map +texnansi-bitstrea-charter.map Run the attached test file... You do not have to elaborate a typescript file, because charter is builtin in the typescripts provided with ConTeXt. Success Willi
I am for sure no font guru. I would suggest you to install the charter fonts with texfont. Apparently, that work has already been done, I found out on the web page mentioned in the previous posting. Sorry, next time i should
Dear Willi, On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:09:51PM +0200, Willi Egger wrote: probably read first, then post :-/ Thanks for the help, anyways. But I got another font related problem (or actually two): I installed a TTF-Font using texfont --fontroot=/usr/share/texmf/ --ve=manfredklein --co=thelogovals --ma --in Now the umlauts seem to be at weird position, so \"u does not work, I can get it with \char252, but that is ugly and gives more problems. How do I solve that in a nice way? I guess I would have to write an .enc-file? Another problem is that I was trying to install the Scriptina font from www.apostrophiclab.com, but any time I run texfont on either the TTF or the Type 1 font, it hangs (vptovf runs and eats 100% cpu time, apparently doing nothing). But I guess this is not really ConTeXt related, anyone knows where I could report that bug? Greetings, Alex
Am Mittwoch, 16.07.03, um 11:59 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Alexander Klink:
I installed a TTF-Font using texfont --fontroot=/usr/share/texmf/ --ve=manfredklein --co=thelogovals --ma --in Now the umlauts seem to be at weird position, so \"u does not work, I can get it with \char252, but that is ugly and gives more problems. How do I solve that in a nice way? I guess I would have to write an .enc-file?
You need not to write it, but to *use* one! Add "--en=texnansi" to your above command line.
Another problem is that I was trying to install the Scriptina font from www.apostrophiclab.com, but any time I run texfont on either the TTF or the Type 1 font, it hangs (vptovf runs and eats 100% cpu time, apparently doing nothing). But I guess this is not really ConTeXt related, anyone knows where I could report that bug?
Did you try info@apostrophiclabs.com ? (With a quick search I found no other email address there.) Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/
I installed a TTF-Font using texfont --fontroot=/usr/share/texmf/ --ve=manfredklein --co=thelogovals --ma --in Now the umlauts seem to be at weird position, so \"u does not work, I can get it with \char252, but that is ugly and gives more problems. How do I solve that in a nice way? I guess I would have to write an .enc-file? You need not to write it, but to *use* one! Add "--en=texnansi" to your above command line. Unluckily, this changes nothing. As far as it looked to me, texnansi is the default encoding anyways (it is in the map file even if I leave
Dear Henning, On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:03:04PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: the --en=... out) Greetings, Alex
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:03:04 +0200
Henning Hraban Ramm
Another problem is that I was trying to install the Scriptina font from www.apostrophiclab.com, but any time I run texfont on either the TTF or the Type 1 font, it hangs (vptovf runs and eats 100% cpu time, apparently doing nothing). But I guess this is not really ConTeXt related, anyone knows where I could report that bug?
I get the same thing. Adding -verbose to vptovf doesn't reveal much new info. Of the two fonts in that package, it does scripalt correctly and hangs on scriptin. This must be a bug in vptovf. I don't know where to report the problem. You might ask on comp.text.tex. Whoever looks at the problem will want to see the texnansi-raw-scriptin.vpl file, which you can copy while the process is hung. -Bill -- Sattre Press Curiosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/ by Garrett Serviss info@sattre-press.com http://csky.sattre-press.com/
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:59:55 +0200
Alexander Klink
Dear Willi,
I am for sure no font guru. I would suggest you to install the charter fonts with texfont. Apparently, that work has already been done, I found out on the web page mentioned in the previous posting. Sorry, next time i should
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:09:51PM +0200, Willi Egger wrote: probably read first, then post :-/ Thanks for the help, anyways. But I got another font related problem (or actually two): I installed a TTF-Font using texfont --fontroot=/usr/share/texmf/ --ve=manfredklein --co=thelogovals --ma --in Now the umlauts seem to be at weird position, so \"u does not work, I can get it with \char252, but that is ugly and gives more problems. How do I solve that in a nice way? I guess I would have to write an .enc-file?
\char252 is texnansi encoding; you have to setup context to use this font encoding
Another problem is that I was trying to install the Scriptina font from www.apostrophiclab.com, but any time I run texfont on either the TTF or the Type 1 font, it hangs (vptovf runs and eats 100% cpu time, apparently doing nothing). But I guess this is not really ConTeXt related, anyone knows where I could report that bug?
don't know about vptovf, but i have installed Scriptina already in ec-encoding using fontinst ( i use fontinst instead of texfont, since it gives you more control). I can send you the files including support for LaTeX and ConTeXt. Jens
Dear Jens, On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
But I got another font related problem (or actually two): I installed a TTF-Font using texfont --fontroot=/usr/share/texmf/ --ve=manfredklein --co=thelogovals --ma --in Now the umlauts seem to be at weird position, so \"u does not work, I can get it with \char252, but that is ugly and gives more problems. How do I solve that in a nice way? I guess I would have to write an .enc-file? \char252 is texnansi encoding; you have to setup context to use this font encoding So how do I do this? It looks as it has been done for the font when I installed it, but when I try to use it as \definefont[TitleFont][texnansi-TheLogovals][encoding=texnansi] it does not work. Funnily enough, instead of the ü there is a u, so maybe it tries to construct the ü out of u + dieresis?
Another problem is that I was trying to install the Scriptina font from www.apostrophiclab.com, but any time I run texfont on either the TTF or the Type 1 font, it hangs (vptovf runs and eats 100% cpu time, apparently doing nothing). But I guess this is not really ConTeXt related, anyone knows where I could report that bug? don't know about vptovf, but i have installed Scriptina already in ec-encoding using fontinst ( i use fontinst instead of texfont, since it gives you more control). I can send you the files including support for LaTeX and ConTeXt. That would be great! Is there a manual on fontinst and ConTeXt? I always thought fontinst was more aimed on LaTeX?
Greetings, Alex
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:18:21 +0200
Alexander Klink
Dear Jens,
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
But I got another font related problem (or actually two): I installed a TTF-Font using texfont --fontroot=/usr/share/texmf/ --ve=manfredklein --co=thelogovals --ma --in Now the umlauts seem to be at weird position, so \"u does not work, I can get it with \char252, but that is ugly and gives more problems. How do I solve that in a nice way? I guess I would have to write an .enc-file? \char252 is texnansi encoding; you have to setup context to use this font encoding So how do I do this? It looks as it has been done for the font when I installed it, but when I try to use it as \definefont[TitleFont][texnansi-TheLogovals][encoding=texnansi] it does not work. Funnily enough, instead of the ü there is a u, so maybe it tries to construct the ü out of u + dieresis?
try \udiaeresis directly; does it work?
Another problem is that I was trying to install the Scriptina font from www.apostrophiclab.com, but any time I run texfont on either the TTF or the Type 1 font, it hangs (vptovf runs and eats 100% cpu time, apparently doing nothing). But I guess this is not really ConTeXt related, anyone knows where I could report that bug? don't know about vptovf, but i have installed Scriptina already in ec-encoding using fontinst ( i use fontinst instead of texfont, since it gives you more control). I can send you the files including support for LaTeX and ConTeXt. That would be great! Is there a manual on fontinst and ConTeXt? I always thought fontinst was more aimed on LaTeX?
fontinst is completely unrelated to LaTeX, but it supports the creation of LaTeX's font-definition files (.fd). This task for ConTeXt, the creation of typescript files, you have to do yourself. There is a manual for fontinst available, but the best about fontinst is: CTAN:info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf Jens
I'm setting a document which is made up of lots of questions, and I want to keep the questions whole on a page, breaking the page before the question if the whole question isn't going to fit on it. Since all the questions are done in ConTeXt as enumerations or descriptions, I have been looking for a way to specify this behaviour through that mechanism, but have been unsuccessful. I have had some success using the plain macro \filbreak (putting one at the start of each question), but since this is messing directly with vertical spacing, and I know that ConTeXt doesn't like you to do that (\vskips are known to interact badly with the white spacing mechanism, for example) I was looking for the ConTeXt-pure way of approaching the issue. I'm also getting some oddities from \filbreak which are no doubt to do with the ConTeXt vertical spacing being interfered with. Anyone done this before? I imagine someone must have... Cheers, Duncan dh@capdm.com
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:07:51 +0200
Alexander Klink
I am trying to use the Bitstream Charter as a font. Unluckily, all the umlauts fail to appear. Here is how I do it:
\definefont[bchr][bchr8t at 12pt] \starttext \bchr \"a \"o \"u \SS{} \stoptext
it works here i don't know if it helps but try to make a new format for context that includes support for german texexec --make --language=de,en en additionally you can try: %--- \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[il1] % latin1 input encoding (Unix) \setupencoding[ec] % ec aka T1 font encoding \usetypescript[berry][ec] \definetypeface[BitstreamCharter][rm][serif][charter][default][encoding=ec] \setupbodyfont[BitstreamCharter,12pt] \starttext Das ist ein deutscher Text, überaus dumm, aber mit sämtlich benötigten Umlauten: ä,ö,ü und ß. \stoptext % --- Jens
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