Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-11 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi! On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Andreas Schneider wrote: >> Thanks a lot, with that it works now (with the texnansi encoding)! These >> facts should be mentioned in the docs. > > The next version of texfont will create a dvips and dvipdfmx map file > as well as a pdftex one, makin

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Andreas Schneider wrote: > Thanks a lot, with that it works now (with the texnansi encoding)! These > facts should be mentioned in the docs. The next version of texfont will create a dvips and dvipdfmx map file as well as a pdftex one, making life a bit easier. > But gv gives an error when I t

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-11 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > This process works in a similar fashion for all programs like > pdftex, dvipdfmx, dvips, and xdvi, but texfont only creates a > map file for pdftex. Unf, the pdftex map file cannot be used by > dvips, so for dvips you have to create your own (like you did

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 9, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > i see, interesting; before we do that, can you check if we can/need to > do the same with texnansi, qx, etc ? > > Hans texnansi is OK, in my experience, and qx as well. t5 also has some LIGKERN instructions at the beginning, but doesn't have f-li

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > And for the LIGKERN: yes, I asked about them on the tex-fonts list a > while ago, and nobody considered them a problem. IMHO, they're > totally useless or even worse, but I received the same ol' answers: > can't change that, it's legacy etc. I think Mojca knows some

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 9, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> I've experimented with afm2pl, and as I wrote in an earlier mail: the >> beginning of EC.enc with its additional LIGKERN instructions confuses >> it so it will not include default ligatures. > > As it turns out, this is the same for afm2tfm. An

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > because of a line in /opt/tex/teTeX/texmf/aliases :-/ > > ah, the dreadful aliases file ... in tex live they're gone ; let's hope that this aliases fiel does not contain anything related to context tex files (patterns for instance) > > Either way, it seems that this LIG

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > >>>how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non >>>existing ligs into account >> >>Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this >>tomorrow, >>it is too late for me to do s

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: >> > > well, we can consider to let texfont use a ec-fixed encoding for > afm2tfm and the regular ec encoding for the rest > > --afmencoding=ec-fixed > > or so or fix afm2pl. > > for a while afm2pl was the default, but then it suddenly defaulted to > latex default (em) spac

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > >>> how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non >>> existing ligs into account >>> >> Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this >> tomorrow, >> it is too late fo

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non >> existing ligs into account > > Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this > tomorrow, > it is too late for me to do serious work. > I've experimented

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: > Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >>The second problem: >> >>texfont simply does not 'do' EC correctly (at least not on my machine). >>There are simply no fi ligatures, not in pdftex either. I will >>investigate this further. > > how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not t

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > When you create a map file for dvips for a texfont-installed > font family, it needs to have those *-raw-* entries that will > map the fonts to the real postscript font files on your harddisk, > and those were missing from your bgj.map. the reason why i create the map

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > The second problem: > > texfont simply does not 'do' EC correctly (at least not on my machine). > There are simply no fi ligatures, not in pdftex either. I will > investigate this further. how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non existing ligs i

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Andreas, Andreas Schneider wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Somehow you yourself (and not texfont!) have created a font map file called bgj.map for dvips, and that file is wrong. Hmm, I have created it just for LaTeX. Since it contains only entries for ec-bgj* (without

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Somehow you yourself (and not texfont!) have created a font map file called bgj.map for dvips, and that file is wrong. Hmm, I have created it just for LaTeX. Since it contains only entries for ec-bgj* (without 'raw') it should not interfere with the ot

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Andreas Schneider wrote: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>if the problem is in a font not having glyphs, you can consider making a >>special encoding vector + enco-* file; not that complex since one can >>start with an existing one > > > The problem is that it does work with pdfte

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > if the problem is in a font not having glyphs, you can consider making a > special encoding vector + enco-* file; not that complex since one can > start with an existing one The problem is that it does work with pdftex (tex -> pdf via texexec --pdf), but i

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-07 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Andreas Schneider wrote: but xdvi gives error messages like [...] My guess is that you have to copy the final file you used to the folder where dvips (and xdvi, which looks in the same place normally) looks for encoding files. I created a symlink in