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

2004-08-24 Thread Siep Kroonenberg
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:26:06AM +0200, Hans Hagen Outside wrote: ok; btw, also take a look at sieps afm2pl since it has some other nice features Hans My belated three cents on some of the things which were discussed in this thread: As to texnansi: this is supported in Latex by

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

2004-08-24 Thread Siep Kroonenberg
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:09:50PM +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: texnansi does not work with german.sty which I'd say is necessary for german texts. T1 and OT1 is hardcoded. I don't know about babel. Patrick Checking babel.def, I saw that it sets \latinencoding to OT1 if T1 is unavailable

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

2004-08-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Hi Patrick, Yes, but what is the problem? We are not talking about other fonts, just the ones preinstalled by psnfss. We know ervery bit of those fonts, so no need to reflect the spacing etc. in the filename, since e.g. phvr8t will always have the same characteristics thougout all distributions.

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

2004-08-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Salman Khilji wrote: 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

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. I

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

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

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

2004-08-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: And the argument about being too LaTeXy: the encoding of these files is not LaTeX specific (besides from the fact that LaTeX can only handle T1/OT1 encoding right), so what is not generic about them? if you run afm2tfm on some files you get different results that the

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

2004-08-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Yes, but you stated that different metrics, different subpaths, urw instances either or not present. Different metrics? I can't see any differences in metrics between differnent distributions on those fonts! Can you? They come from one source, i.e psnfss. Different

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

2004-08-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hello Hans, [...] but type-akb.tex should be there ... \usetypescriptfile[type-akb] Hmm, shouldn't \usetypescript[adobekb][..] be enough to load the file? I have just deleted my tetex 2 installation, so I can't verify. type-akb.tex didn't get loaded with fedora

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

2004-08-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi, [...] I also tried: \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] Patrick Concerning those fonts, there are differences between distributions: different metrics, different subpaths,