[NTG-context] Help for using fonts Nupuram

[Hans Hagen]

On 12/23/2022 12:00 PM, Alain Delmotte via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am trying to run the example Hans published on the 1st of December 
> with a new upload.
> It is about using the variable font Nupuram.
> 
> I downloaded the font in a big .zip file.
> It contains: two explaining files and  folder with  sub-folder 
> "Nupuram", which in turn contains 6 subsub-filders:
> - otf with 32 otf font files
> - otf-variable with 1 file "Nupuram-VF.otf"
> - ttf with 32 ttf font files
> - ttf-variable with 1 file "Nupuram-VF.ttf"
> - ufo with 32 subfolders xxx.ufo
> - webfonts with 33 xxx.woff2 files
> 
> After looking to contextgarden,I tried to put the "Nupuram" sub-folder 
> or only the folders with .otf in different places of my context-lmtx 
> folder, and using "mtxrun --script font --reload".
> But the example of Hans didn't work.
> 
> Then I install the .ttf font files in Windows\fonts; it works, but 1) 
> trying to install the Nupuram-VF.ttf, I have the message that 
> Nupuram-Regular is already installed; and 2) I get the font in the 
> example, but no changes of width or colour.
> 
> So, now I deleted all the Nupuram everywhere.
> How could I have it fully working under context-lmtx?
> 
> I have different places for fonts in my context-lmtx:
> - tex\texmf\fonts      mainly empty except \data
> - texmf-context\fonts  populated
> - texmf-fonts  empty
> - texmf-modules\fonts  populated
don't mis instances and variable fonts here because they have clashing 
(internal) names; put the variable fonts in:

fonts/data/nupuram/*

then run mtxrun --make

and see if s-fonts-variable.mk*v runs (check at the end what font is used)

Hans

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