Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-21 Thread Larry Stamm
Salman Khilji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found out that while trying to install the latest ConTeXt over > whatever came with texlive2003-inst-20030928.iso, I screwed up > somewhere and ConTeXt would not even generate me a pdf file with > cmr fonts. > So here is what I di

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font (SOLVED)

2004-08-21 Thread Salman Khilji
Okay. Problem solved. The thing is that I did not ask the texlive distribution to install the extra fonts package. The palatino fonts were part of the extra fonts. Now I have another question. It seems like \setupbodyfont[palatino] produces different results than \setupbodyfont[ppl]. The f

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-21 Thread Salman Khilji
I found out that while trying to install the latest ConTeXt over whatever came with texlive2003-inst-20030928.iso, I screwed up somewhere and ConTeXt would not even generate me a pdf file with cmr fonts. So here is what I did. 1) I deleted everything about TeX from my system 2) Installed TeXLiv

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-21 Thread Salman Khilji
On Friday 20 August 2004 09:40 am, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > So "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" should report again. > Still no luck!!! :-( Okay, so I got really upset with teTeX so I decided to get rid of it. Earlier I said that I was using Fedora Core 2. Now I am sitting on a SuSE 8.0 Pro machine.

Re: [NTG-context] Ancient Greek

2004-08-21 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > I am about to edit a book with quotes in ancient (polyphonic) greek. > How can this be done in ConTeXt? > Searching for answers I found the long and painful thread > started by Thomas A. Schmitz almost one year ago. > Do we have an easie

Re: [NTG-context] XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

2004-08-21 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 21.08.2004 um 20:43 schrieb Adam Lindsay: Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage? Oops! I meant to link: Oh, another fine & free project of SIL! (I very much like their Gentium font, just switched a bimonthly magazine that I set with InDesign to Gentium as bodyfo

Re: [NTG-context] XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

2004-08-21 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:37:18 +0200: > >Am 21.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb Adam Lindsay: >> For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that >> hooks >> into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native >> Mac fonts without any TeXF

Re: [NTG-context] XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

2004-08-21 Thread Steve Peter
On Aug 21, 2004, at 2:37 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage? http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex Steve ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/

[NTG-context] XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

2004-08-21 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 21.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb Adam Lindsay: For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that hooks into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y conversion necessary. It supports Apple's AAT features as well as OTF featu

Re: [NTG-context] Ancient Greek

2004-08-21 Thread Adam Lindsay
Steffen Wolfrum said this at Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:57:05 +0200: >Well, I'd love to use aleph - no doubt! But, as I work with MacOS(X) >I fear I have to find a solution that will work for pdfetex. > >Could someone help me? Hmm. What's your timeframe? I'm working on XeTeX drivers for ConTeXt that sh

Re: [NTG-context] patterns

2004-08-21 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:13:54 +0200: >>> So, what i need is for each language a couple of words that hyphenate >>> in unique ways (i.e. they must hyphenate differently than related >>> languages) This may be old news, but a quick Google turned up this TUGBoat on US vs UK:

[NTG-context] Re: Lucida Bright Fonts from StarOffice

2004-08-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > For right now, I am giving up on the postscript fonts. Lets try > something else. :-) Those fonts are also postscript fonts. [...] > Is there any way I can use these fonts with ConTeXt? If yes, where > do I need to copy them and what do I rename them to? Use the

[NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Hans, [psnfss fonts] > sure, and anyone is free to use what he/she wants; but ... my main > problem is that i want to *know* what i use; That is exactly why I use the psnfss fonts. They are stable, the spacing doesn't change. > (afm2pl now has a afm2tfm compatibility switch); there have bee