Hello Hans,
Hans Hagen wrote:
I am trying to use latex fonts (to be more precize: the allrunes
font) downloaded from the
what files do those fonts come with:
tfm vf afm pfb enc map
I have 16 different .tfm files. But also a lot of .mf files.
forget about the latex macros, they are not needed
OK, but how do I get context to use these fonts? I coulnd't find any
descent documentation regarding this.
i can only locate pfb files and a map file; it looks like one is
supposed to generate the tfm's with metafont (maybe you can ask the
author to put the tfm's in the zip as well) and i'm not going to
clobber my ststem with bitmaps
it comes down to:
\loadmapfile[allrunes.map]
\showfont[frucls]
\showfont[frucln]
\showfont[fruclr]
\showfont[fruclt]
\showfont[fruclm]
\showfont[fruclq]
this should give you something (given that the tfm files are present)
if that works, you can do:
\definefont[somerunes][frucls sa 1]
\somerunes abcdef
or, depending on how the fonts are organized you can set up a system
(see type-* files)
I'm slowly getting there, only two more problems to solve ;) The first
thing is, that to use some of the characters in the fontset I have to
use \th to display them, but I have no idea how to accomplish that in
context as everytime I use \somerunes \th, or \somerunes{\th} ... I get
an error message. If i double mascerade it like \\th i get the symbols
for the characters t and h. I am sure there is a way to get this working.
The next thing, which I guess is to search more on the font-subsystem of
context, is the fact that I only get my characters displayed when
viewing the .dvi-file with xdvi. When executing texexec --pdf or using
dvipdf (or dvips) I get nothing, or the charaters in the standard
latin-typeset (i.e. ASCII).
I am sorry if I bother you all with this simple stuff that can surely be
solved by reading some documentation, but I pretty new to the hole
tex-thing and the mass of documentation is overwhelming and sometimes
prety cryptical. ;)
Best regards
Kai
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