Re: [NTG-context] font problems

2021-11-26 Thread jdh via ntg-context
Hans, thanks you for the solution to my font problem. I appreciate it. I'm trying to understand the definefont command you used and it seems that the arguments 'sa 1' in the macro is a size indication somewhat similar to 'at 10pt' but uses a relative size parameter as opposed to the

Re: [NTG-context] font problems

2021-11-26 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 11/26/2021 12:59 PM, jdh via ntg-context wrote: Here's my MWE: Objective is to typeset a Chancery font text in the upper lefthand side of a page, and then do the main body in some normal font. Then at the very last print a sign off in Chancery. For some reason I

[NTG-context] font problems

2021-11-26 Thread jdh via ntg-context
Here's my MWE: Objective is to typeset a Chancery font text in the upper lefthand side of a page, and then do the main body in some normal font. Then at the very last print a sign off in Chancery. For some reason I can't get both to print out as Chancery. Only one or the

[NTG-context] Font problems.

2015-05-02 Thread John Culleton
On the same source file Texlive 2004 context (mkiv) can find files that a more recent stand alone version of context can't. I need to set something somewhere so that the stand alone version can find files in /usr/share/fonts/OTF. I call the stand alone version from a script called Context in

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems.

2015-05-02 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 05/02/2015 04:19 PM, John Culleton wrote: On the same source file Texlive 2004, context Hi John, sorry, but I wonder whether you meant TeX Live 2014. (mkiv) can find files that a more recent stand alone version of context can't. Font files, I guess. I need to set something somewhere so

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems

2013-05-31 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:52:22PM +0200, H. Özoguz wrote: Hi there, I cant run the font ramnaclq-webfont.ttf (see attachment) in Context. That is a broken, a so called “ASCII hack” font that (ab)uses ASCII code points for Arabic. In short it is a broken font and will not work. Regards,

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems

2013-05-31 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Salaam, Huseyn, On Fri, 31 May 2013 07:24:20 -0600, H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de wrote: With the font file maddina.ttf I have the same problems. But this font is clearly not broken, you can download it here: http://www.searchfreefonts.com/free/quran-madina.htm (or see attachment of this

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems

2013-05-31 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Salaam Huseyin, If you have not done so already, you can also try the Quran fonts listed at the bottom of this page: http://al-quran.info/page/about Scheherazade you are already familiar with. I have not done much testing of the others but they are all OT I believe. Best wishes Idris --

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Vasile Gaburici wrote: Feel free to fiddle with the sort function if you name fonts differently, but you need to make sure that bold italic gets loaded before bold for the bug to occur. Ok, bug found and squashed. Patch is below Okay, I've updated to the latest beta. Recursive OSFONTDIR

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Vasile Gaburici wrote: If you still haven't figured out how to reproduce it, apply the patched I've attached. It will force the hash entries to be added in sorted order. With the patch applied, if you have some fonts called Calibri Bold Italic.otf Calibri Bold.otf Calibri Italic.otf

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 14, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: the order is just one factor. what actually happens is that there is a compensation for buggy font names (as happens often in afm files) so in practice one entry might become three entries; taco noticed that one of the fallbacks create

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Vasile Gaburici wrote: I've switched to the rsync-ed minimals on Linux. There are still some problems with fonts: 1) Bold is still missing from fonts pulled via OSFONTDIR, e.g.: verdana Verdana /usr/share/fonts/vista/Verdana.ttf verdana bold italic

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Vasile Gaburici wrote: I've switched to the rsync-ed minimals on Linux. There are still some problems with fonts: 1) Bold is still missing from fonts pulled via OSFONTDIR, e.g.: verdana Verdana /usr/share/fonts/vista/Verdana.ttf verdana

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Vasile Gaburici
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, recursion would be nice. font-syn.lua, line 190: path = input.clean_path(path .. /) path = path:gsub(/+,/) path = path .. **/ insert the last line and see what happens (untested because

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Vasile Gaburici wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, recursion would be nice. font-syn.lua, line 190: path = input.clean_path(path .. /) path = path:gsub(/+,/) path = path .. **/ insert the last line and see what

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Vasile Gaburici
As for the missing bold, it seems there's a bug in the naming scheme: Ii the bold italic file gets read from the disk before the bold, then you don't get the right entries. It so happens that most of the fonts in that dir had bold before bold italic, e.g. fontnames | identifying ttf font

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Vasile Gaburici wrote: As for the missing bold, it seems there's a bug in the naming scheme: Ii the bold italic file gets read from the disk before the bold, then you don't get the right entries. It so happens that most of the fonts in that dir had bold before bold italic, e.g. fontnames |

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Vasile Gaburici
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vasile Gaburici wrote: As for the missing bold, it seems there's a bug in the naming scheme: Ii the bold italic file gets read from the disk before the bold, then you don't get the right entries. It so happens that most of

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Vasile Gaburici wrote: I've switched to the rsync-ed minimals on Linux. There are still some problems with fonts: 1) Bold is still missing from fonts pulled via OSFONTDIR, e.g.: verdana Verdana /usr/share/fonts/vista/Verdana.ttf verdana bold italic

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vasile Gaburici wrote: As for the missing bold, it seems there's a bug in the naming scheme: Ii the bold italic file gets read from the disk before

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Vasile Gaburici
Before I get anymore strawman arguments, here's the definitive experiment: $ ls -U1 /usr/share/fonts/vista/ | grep erda Verdanai.ttf Verdana.ttf Verdanaz.ttf Verdanab.ttf $ ls -U1 /xp/wtf/ Verdana.ttf Verdanab.ttf Verdanai.ttf Verdanaz.ttf Notice that the directory order is different, bold

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Vasile Gaburici wrote: Before I get anymore strawman arguments, here's the definitive experiment: $ ls -U1 /usr/share/fonts/vista/ | grep erda Verdanai.ttf Verdana.ttf Verdanaz.ttf Verdanab.ttf $ ls -U1 /xp/wtf/ Verdana.ttf Verdanab.ttf Verdanai.ttf Verdanaz.ttf did you test the

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Vasile Gaburici wrote: Before I get anymore strawman arguments, here's the definitive experiment: As Hans said, should be corrected in the latest beta. Please cut us some slack here, debugging unreproducible problems is hard and timeconsuming. BTW, the Lua 5.1 reference manual is a joke.

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Vasile Gaburici
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vasile Gaburici wrote: Before I get anymore strawman arguments, here's the definitive experiment: As Hans said, should be corrected in the latest beta. Please cut us some slack here, debugging unreproducible problems is

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-13 Thread Vasile Gaburici
If you still haven't figured out how to reproduce it, apply the patched I've attached. It will force the hash entries to be added in sorted order. With the patch applied, if you have some fonts called Calibri Bold Italic.otf Calibri Bold.otf Calibri Italic.otf Calibri.otf the order of hash

[NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-12 Thread Vasile Gaburici
I've switched to the rsync-ed minimals on Linux. There are still some problems with fonts: 1) Bold is still missing from fonts pulled via OSFONTDIR, e.g.: verdana Verdana /usr/share/fonts/vista/Verdana.ttf verdana bold italic Verdana Bold Italic

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems (Palatino)

2006-06-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Johan Blixt-Dackhammar wrote: I updated ConTeXt to the latest version available in i-Installer and the error dissapeared. Although, another thing started to mess upp. I write my documents in UTF-8 and was before upgrading using the \enableregime[utf] commande which worked perfect. After

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems (Palatino)

2006-06-02 Thread Johan Blixt-Dackhammar
Okay, perhaps it's a font related error. I can't say that I do understand much of the log, but I saw something saying that there was an error trying to load a font. Here's the full LOG: TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable :

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems (Palatino)

2006-06-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johan Blixt-Dackhammar wrote: Okay, perhaps it's a font related error. I can't say that I do understand much of the log, but I saw something saying that there was an error trying to load a font. Here's the full LOG: This is quickly becoming a FAQ:

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems (Palatino)

2006-06-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Johan Blixt-Dackhammar wrote: Trying that rendered the same result, but thanks anyway... On 6/1/06, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31 mai 2006, at 23:40, Johan Blixt-Dackhammar wrote: When trying to typeset for example a document using the mag-01 module I get an error

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems (Palatino)

2006-06-01 Thread Johan Blixt-Dackhammar
I updated ConTeXt to the latest version available in i-Installer and the error dissapeared. Although, another thing started to mess upp. I write my documents in UTF-8 and was before upgrading using the \enableregime[utf] commande which worked perfect. After upgrading though, I only get blanks

[NTG-context] Font problems (Palatino)

2006-05-31 Thread Johan Blixt-Dackhammar
When trying to typeset for example a document using the mag-01 module I get an error that from what I understand is font related. I'm using MacOS 10.4.6 (on intel), and I do have the Palatino font. Why do I get the error and how can the problem be resolved? ERROR

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems (Palatino)

2006-05-31 Thread Otared Kavian
On 31 mai 2006, at 23:40, Johan Blixt-Dackhammar wrote: When trying to typeset for example a document using the mag-01 module I get an error that from what I understand is font related. I'm using MacOS 10.4.6 (on intel), and I do have the Palatino font. Why do I get the error and how can the

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems (Palatino)

2006-05-31 Thread Johan Blixt-Dackhammar
Trying that rendered the same result, but thanks anyway... On 6/1/06, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31 mai 2006, at 23:40, Johan Blixt-Dackhammar wrote: When trying to typeset for example a document using the mag-01 module I get an error that from what I understand is font

Re: [NTG-context] font problems again

2005-11-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Hans, (I am not really going to answer you, sorry). I usually ignore those cannot find encoding-urw-family.map messages (yes, I get them as well). The needed font mapping lines for the 'base' postscript fonts are also in encoding-base.map, and that file usually is

Re: [NTG-context] font problems again

2005-11-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: Do I now understand correctly that I MUST use texfont first in order to work with fonts in ConTeXt? I did not realize that when going over to the new tetex setup. I guess the typescripts for the lm/cmr fonts are ready-made in the context distribution? not for

Re: [NTG-context] font problems again

2005-11-15 Thread Hans van der Meer
Two more questions: (1) On Nov 14, 2005, at 0:07, Hans Hagen wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: No help from enabling in cont-sys.tex of: \usetypescript[adobekb] [\defaultencoding] (updmap.cfg contains URWkb for the LW35 fonts) then it starts asking for (non-existing) maps like: Warning:

Re: [NTG-context] font problems again

2005-11-15 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Hans, (I am not really going to answer you, sorry). I usually ignore those cannot find encoding-urw-family.map messages (yes, I get them as well). The needed font mapping lines for the 'base' postscript fonts are also in encoding-base.map, and that file usually is found. The message is

Re: [NTG-context] font problems again

2005-11-14 Thread Hans van der Meer
I used to work with the TeX i-Package install. But every once in a while tex has to be updated. Then I was confronted with fairly hefty downloads for my humble isdn-telephone connection (not everyone has adsl). That's the reason I switched over to installing teTeX and ConTeXy directly. Not

Re: [NTG-context] font problems again

2005-11-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: No help from enabling in cont-sys.tex of: \usetypescript[adobekb] [\defaultencoding] (updmap.cfg contains URWkb for the LW35 fonts) then it starts asking for (non-existing) maps like: Warning: pdfetex (file ec-urw-helvetica.map): cannot open font map file that is when