[NTG-context] Ambitious project (Font Folio)

2009-03-09 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello everybody, I have an ambitious project in mind. I'm in position to make typescripts for the whole Adobe Font Folio 11. By now, I'm only concerned with Western/Cyrrilic Fonts (490+ fonts), and MKIV engine. The benefit is that users will be able to use most popular fonts out-of-the-box,

Re: [NTG-context] Ambitious project (Font Folio)

2009-03-09 Thread Yue Wang
There are also LinoType, MonoType and ITC pack installed on my machine. So there are thousands and thousands fonts there. Without an automatic font selecting mechanism / script, it will be very difficulty to do that. ConTeXt's font naming mechanism is very different with commercial fonts. digital

Re: [NTG-context] Ambitious project (Font Folio)

2009-03-09 Thread Hans Hagen
... I have an ambitious project in mind. I'm in position to make typescripts for the whole Adobe Font Folio 11. By now, I'm only concerned with Western/Cyrrilic Fonts (490+ fonts), and MKIV engine. The benefit is that users will be able to use most popular fonts out-of-the-box, thus giving the

Re: [NTG-context] Ambitious project (Font Folio)

2009-03-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote: There are also LinoType, MonoType and ITC pack installed on my machine. So there are thousands and thousands fonts there. Without an automatic font selecting mechanism / script, it will be very difficulty to do that. ConTeXt's font naming mechanism is very different with

Re: [NTG-context] Ambitious project (Font Folio)

2009-03-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2009-03-09 um 14:38 schrieb Hans Hagen: but some kind of structured approach (database, preview, etc) can b ehandy I'd really love if TeX could hook into the system font mechanism (whatever that really is), so that font managers like Linotype FontExplorer could activate (install) fonts