At 07:22 PM 8/8/2001 +0200, Tobias Burnus wrote: >I found this Type-1 Unicode font > http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Unicode.html >which I would like to use with \ConTeXt. > >It consists of: >Caslon (serif font): roman, oblique, bold, black, small-caps (but no >bold-oblique) >Monospace (~courier): roman, oblique, bold [and no-Type-1 bold-oblique] >Cupola (~~~Informal): Roman, italic, bold, bold-italic, small caps >Caliban (~helvetica): Roman(?) > >How can I use it best? I'd like to use it as complete replacement for CM >for some documents, since has a lot of nice characterts. A type one font needs to be split into chunks [this is how for instance chinese is supported] while a truetype can be used as a whole. You need to make tfm files for each chunk, as well as enc files [lei wang is an expert on this, he also made some scripts]. If you can sort this out we can see if we can make this process easy since there are more unicode fonts around. there are two ways to proceed: (1) create standard (say texnansi,ec) subsets, (2) use uchar mapping, which means something like: Eumlaut -> uchar{1}{234} but then we may loose kerning and so, Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------
