Difference between revisions of "Fonts - Old Content"

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Font handling in ConTeXt is “strange” for LaTeX users. It's a system of abstraction and aliases, complex and mighty … But there's help:

Adam Lindsay's page focuses on typography (OpenType, Unicode etc.), esp. on MacOS X
Bill McClain's ConTeXt beginners page has also a lot about fonts
font installation with texfont by Pragma
Integrating TrueType Fonts into ConTeXt by Thomas A. Schmitz (PracTeX Journal)
ConTeXt's font mechanism in detail by Pragma
making outlines by Pragma
Here you can try out several TeX fonts online (PDF interface!)
Troubleshooting: solving TeXfont problems.
The ConTeXt way of using fonts are TypeScripts.
Installing a TrueType font, step by step. If you just need to install a TrueType font, this may be what you are looking for.

Using psnfss metrics in ConTeXt
Matt Gushee about virtual fonts
Fonts rely on Encodings and Regimes, and it helps to know what happens underneath the hood, from time to time.
In newer distributions, map files belong in …/fonts/map/pdftex/context!
Don't forget to look at cont-sys.tex!

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 * [http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html Bill McClain's ConTeXt beginners page] has also a lot about fonts
 * [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexfont.pdf font installation with texfont] by Pragma
+* [http://tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/schmitz/schmitz.pdf Integrating TrueType Fonts into ConTeXt] by Thomas A. Schmitz (PracTeX Journal)
 * [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mfonts.pdf ConTeXt's font mechanism in detail] by Pragma
 * [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mmakempy.pdf making outlines] by Pragma