On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:25 PM, John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2008 06:03:43 am Alan Stone wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Charles P. Schaum >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> wrote: >> > With Ubuntu and fonts there are several things going on. >> >> Which begets the question... >> >> Regarding font installation, detection and other (non font related) >> issues which occur recurrently when working with (Con)TeX(t), which >> GNU/Linux distribution(s) is(/are) most user-friendly ? >> >> Alan > > I just avoid font miseries by relying mostly on the \font primitive. > The complexities of creating and using typescripts etc. take too much > time and too much head scratching. I do use the Texfont utility to > create the necessary font bits and pieces when I buy a new type 1 > font.
Typescript for XeTeX and LuaTeX are written in a few minutes and you can use all font switches you can't use if you define them with \font. > All the aliases etc. in Context don't help me much. I simply define > the needed fonts in the sizes I will use. If I need another size I > just copy the \font statement, change the font name and change the > size parameter. For nimbus bold condensed I end up with fonts named > numbux nimbuy nimbua etc. > > This is of course not the Context way, but it saves me time and grief. > > I depend on texlive in my Slackware 12.1 distro. Slack comes with > tetex but AFAIK that is no longer updated. Therefore I don't bother > to include it when building Slack. I install texlive from the cdr and > then modify /etc/profile by adding > /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux: > to the PATH= string. > Thus far the versions of Context (mkii) and pdftex etc. found on > texlive have been stable and reliable. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
