> the MAP-file is a nice place for the real font selection.
I agree with that. (Did you mean it this way?)
hm, i disagree -) unless you keep your map files with your specific styles / projects
> How should i tell "normal" users that their font-selection from the > document is overwriten since some stupid and wrong decisions have > been made in the past.
That is easy: You don't have the real helvetica? Then your dvi processor (or pdfTeX) switches back to a substitution. This is the way every printer works, that don't have the Linotype fonts built in.
but, subsitutions means ugly results, which means ugly docs, which gives tex a bad reputation
1) the user: he or she requests the typescript [times][..]. What does he want? URW? Or what? IMO I request Times-Roman, and not a substitue.
This is a real tricky area, there are so many times out that if you are not specific and embed them (in graphics, docs, etc) you end up in troubles. We have a few thousand Corel Draw files, mae on a win95 machine long ago, and cannot even open them because the font names changed (distiller 2 accepted the eps, distiller 5 doesn't)
The way with current ConTeXt it is now: I ask for Helvetica and get Nimbus Sans. There is no way around this.
unless you map the names alternatively, which you will do for us; just prepare the lot and we can discuss it in bremen
{if tex was less powerfull with math/fonts, live would be so much more easy]
Hans
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