Dear Gerben or Hans, I have been away on holiday. So I have lost the result of this thread. Have you or Hans solved this problem. If so, do I need to upgrade i-tetex or ConTeXt or both. I would really like to solve this problem and get back to standard ConTeXt fonts.
TIA > From: Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 00:05 07/08/2003 +0200, Gerben Wierda wrote: > >> Yes, this could be. If texexec or any ConTeXt tool does not use texmf.cnf >> values but has hardcoded ideas about where to find stuff (texmf), then the >> rearranging of the texmf directories could have an influence. Hans can >> probably say if this is possibly the case. After all, the rearranging had >> no ill effects whatsoever on TeX or LaTeX, because where files are is >> governed by texmf.cnf and that was adapted as well to reflect the changed >> situation. If there is hardcoded stuff in texexec that is playing a role >> (I am guessing here), making it dynamic by calls to kpsewhich is a good >> solution. >> >> For the rest, the content of texmf.tetex is created by Thomas Esser, not >> me. And there you will find not a complete set of URW but an Adobe set and >> thatis what the discussion is also about. hans is right in stating that. > > context can happily work in the texmf tree and does depemnd on its own > trees; with regards to texfont: > > - it will install in either texmf-fonts or texmf-local, depending on what > is present; the reason for having texmf-fonts is that we need a place for > commercial fonts (and texmf-local is for my updates, local stuff etc) > > - texfonts uses prefixed names (texnansi-* and alike) for several reasons: > (1) when i buy a font, i wan tto copy the fonts to some temp path, call > texfont, and have the job done; i don't want to mess around with 8 char > names that may conflict is i do something wrong; > > - another reason for texfonts naming sheme of 'third party fonts' is that > when one starts slanting fonts (and alike) the kb naming sheme does not > keep track of what slant is used, which in principle will lead to conflicts > if one has multiple instances (wherever they may come from) > > - for the same reason i keep separate map files for those third part > collections > > - with regards to the fonts on tex live the confusion comes from the mix of > adobe names and urw type ones. So far whatever i made default, failed on > someones system, which is why we have now type-akb for the mixed users > > - also: context font mechanism is set up in a way that makes it possible to > combine fonts with minimal calls (once understood -), supporting relative > scaling and alike; i don't want user sto be dependent on one (few) persons > to define / install / use fonts. > >> If that is the case, texfont is a problem because it hard codes locations >> where texmf.cnf is the source for locations and kpsewhich is the way to >> find out about them. > > afaik it uses kpsewhich an-r env vars and one can set things on the command > line as well; there is not so much hard coded in there -) > > Hans -- Nigel _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
