Hello everybody, I have an ambitious project in mind. I'm in position to make typescripts for the whole Adobe Font Folio 11. By now, I'm only concerned with Western/Cyrrilic Fonts (490+ fonts), and MKIV engine. The benefit is that users will be able to use most popular fonts out-of-the-box, thus giving the ConTeXt strong advantage in professional typesetting world. I think my effort will require some support from NTG ;o), but before applying I'd like to hear your response. Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
There are also LinoType, MonoType and ITC pack installed on my machine.
So there are thousands and thousands fonts there.
Without an automatic font selecting mechanism / script, it will be
very difficulty to do that.
ConTeXt's font naming mechanism is very different with commercial
fonts. digital fonts themselves have their own distinct naming
conventions. For example, Frutiger's fonts use numbers to define the
weight/style of the font family.
Moreover, when company X release a font pack version N+1 and break/fix
old font presentation/file names, then you will be very busy fixing
those stuffs.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello everybody,
I have an ambitious project in mind. I'm in position to make typescripts for the whole Adobe Font Folio 11. By now, I'm only concerned with Western/Cyrrilic Fonts (490+ fonts), and MKIV engine.
The benefit is that users will be able to use most popular fonts out-of-the-box, thus giving the ConTeXt strong advantage in professional typesetting world.
I think my effort will require some support from NTG ;o), but before applying I'd like to hear your response.
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I have an ambitious project in mind. I'm in position to make typescripts for the whole Adobe Font Folio 11. By now, I'm only concerned with Western/Cyrrilic Fonts (490+ fonts), and MKIV engine.
The benefit is that users will be able to use most popular fonts out-of-the-box, thus giving the ConTeXt strong advantage in professional typesetting world.
I think my effort will require some support from NTG ;o), but before applying I'd like to hear your response.
why not apply for a tug soc project then http://www.tug.org/gsoc/ 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Yue Wang wrote:
There are also LinoType, MonoType and ITC pack installed on my machine. So there are thousands and thousands fonts there. Without an automatic font selecting mechanism / script, it will be very difficulty to do that.
ConTeXt's font naming mechanism is very different with commercial fonts. digital fonts themselves have their own distinct naming conventions. For example, Frutiger's fonts use numbers to define the weight/style of the font family.
not only names of files, but also internal names are often inconsistent which is why in mkiv every lookup is kind of normalized; another problem is that there can be several weights (sets) but some kind of structured approach (database, preview, etc) can b ehandy 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Am 2009-03-09 um 14:38 schrieb Hans Hagen:
but some kind of structured approach (database, preview, etc) can b ehandy
I'd really love if TeX could hook into the system font mechanism (whatever that really is), so that font managers like Linotype FontExplorer could activate ("install") fonts for ConTeXt... Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
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