[NTG-context] Two questions about use of system ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Eythan Weg
Hi, I am trying to use truetype fonts with mkiv. When loading a font given a full path name like this: \font\test=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf at 12pt the log shows report load otf: loading: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont//FreeSans.ttf report load otf: enhance:

Re: [NTG-context] Two questions about use of system ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Eythan Weg wrote: Hi, I am trying to use truetype fonts with mkiv. When loading a font given a full path name like this: \font\test=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf at 12pt do you need to provide the full path? why not set OSFONTDIR?

Re: [NTG-context] Two questions about use of system ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Eythan, i wrote a typescriptfile for the complete family, you try if it will work for you. For all toher interested people, you could download the fonts from the following page (scroll down to the section Downloading fonts): http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ Wolfgang On Fri, 29 Feb

[NTG-context] Font question

2008-02-29 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Hi all! I'm going to start using ConTeXt; I've been planning to do so for a few years, but now I finally have Internet access at home, so it's easier for me to look things up in the wiki (or ask here;)). I have two questions. The first one is connected with fonts. I can't understand ConTeXt's

Re: [NTG-context] Font question

2008-02-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Marcin Borkowski wrote: Hi all! I'm going to start using ConTeXt; I've been planning to do so for a few years, but now I finally have Internet access at home, so it's easier for me to look things up in the wiki (or ask here;)). I have two questions. The first one is connected with fonts.

Re: [NTG-context] Font question

2008-02-29 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:54:46PM +0100, Hans Hagen napisa#322;(a): Marcin Borkowski wrote: Hi all! I'm going to start using ConTeXt; I've been planning to do so for a few years, but now I finally have Internet access at home, so it's easier for me to look things up in the wiki (or

Re: [NTG-context] Font question

2008-02-29 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:57:30PM +0100, Hans Hagen napisa#322;(a): Marcin Borkowski wrote: 1) when I substituted pagella for palatino, it stopped working; pagella has no typescripts, as long as gyre is not finished, we overload the traditional fonts (font file remapping) 2) and

Re: [NTG-context] Font question

2008-02-29 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi, On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:17:23 -0700, Marcin Borkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: better consider switching to luatex/context mkiv then -) Well, I'm a bit afraid of its experimental status.. Don't be, its bark is worse than its bite... I use it for production purposes (opentype,