Idris, thank you very much for your explanations... they are very helpful. regarding ttf translation, I have in my system (I guess it came with texlive2004) a little software "ttf2pt1" that does the job. unix> ttf2pt1 -b fontname.ttf and it produces the two files: fontname.afm, fontname.pfb which then I used with your "cooking" instructions for garamond...
BTW, how do you use a ttf font directly in context? thank you Ciro On Apr 3, 2005 2:45 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED], mailing list for ConTeXt users > <ntg-context@ntg.nl> ===== > >My problem goes beyond fonts. What I think I need is a simple explanation > >of the TeX-like package system. For instance: > > > >I see tetex,pdftex,contex, latex,web2c,...and so on, but I don't understand > >their interrelation/dependency. > > teTeX, fpTeX, gwTeX, and MiKTeX are os-dependent distrbutions. > > LaTeX and ConTeXt are os-independent macropackages. > > Web2C is the Pascal-to-C translator that allows compilation of TeX on Unix, > Windows, etc. /web2c is the directory that contains configuration files and > os-dependent format files. But I don't know why it's called "/web2c" > > >Why the livetex tree is like it is? What is needed for a context user? > > ConTeXt has become so detailed and powerful, and changes so fast, that the > os-dependent distrbutions can't keep up. I predict that one day ConTeXt will > be completely independent of TeXLive. Some of the problems many of us have > been facing ultimately boil down to the growing, but not yet complete, > independence of ConTeXt from TeXLive. Personally, I think this a good thing, > because ConTeXt is really a stand-alone system in the final analysis. > mswincontext.zip is _almost_ there; maybe Hans could use volunteers to build > and maintain independent Mac and Unix packages a la mswincontext.zip. Then we > could contribute to a test/torture suite to make sure that everything runs > identically on all os's. Each of us may have pet issues that concern us (I > have my aleph work for example, there are fonts, xml, etc). > > >What are the steps to upgrade context with a cont-tmf.zip and a texlive2004? > >Would it be possible to create an shell script that automize all this? > > I would get the tetex package from pragma, install it in its own tree, define > your path so that your ConTeXt bin is searched BEFORE TeXLive's, and have your > shell script initialize your tree (maybe there are instructions in the teTeX > package). I modified my setuptex.bat so that my ConTeXt tree would search my > TeXLive tree as well; I suppose you could do the same with setuptex.csh. > > > > >Where are fonts registered/stored/mapped/encoded? > > There is a document somewhere on the TeX Directory Structure (tds), I think. > Look in /texmf/doc/tds > > > > >Most books on TeX,latex, etc, only explain how to use them, but not > >the 'system administration' part, which must of us have to learn as well. > > There is an old book, Making TeX Work, that aimed to do just this. But it's 11 > years old and woefully out of date. > > > > >BTW, I used Idris instructions (without step4 because my texfont works) > >and I have installed three different fonts so far. Actually, I > >converted TTF fonts > >to pfb/afm, then used the Idris steps, and I am happy. > > How did you convert ttf>pfb? I did this once using FontLab and I lost all my > macron accents:-( > > But texfont and pdfetex work with ttf files so there is no need to convert:-) > > Now I hace to learn how > >to build typescript files, and learn where to put them, > > What I did was just get one complete working typescript and model my other > typescripts on that one. If type-ugm is working for you, just study that one. > Five steps: > > % raw fonts > %Names > %Synonyms > %maps > %typefaces > > Note that you can mix and match fonts to create your own complete typefaces. I > am enclosing a typescript I did for Times New Roman and Arial (type-tnr.tex) > that I posted a few weeks ago. > > About placing type-* files: You can put them anywhere in your TeX path; I put > mine, along with some other private configuration files, in > /texmf-local/tex/generic/private, but you can put them anywhere you like under > your TeX path. > > >and the mapping/encoding > >business. > > I think you don't have to worry about this too much, except that texfont > defaults to texnansi, while the fonts that come with TeXLive are mostly ec. So > you should avoid use of \char as much as possible in your macros, and stick to > character control sequences like \circumflex. > > Best > Idris > > ============================ > Professor Idris Samawi Hamid > Department of Philosophy > Colorado State University > Fort Collins, CO 80523 > > -- ======================================= "All problems are at the interface. Each one of them has a solution." from: "The Guitar Maker, An Exploration of Wisdom, Design and Love." A novel by C. A. Soto Aguirre. Pub. Date: Aug. 2005. _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
