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
ConTeXt's font mechanism in detail by Pragma
making outlines by Pragma
Here you can try out several TeX fonts online (PDF interface!)
Tips from experience - including: solving texfont problems.

examples of using typescripts by Pragma
example typescripts for free and commercial fonts, by Hraban
typescripts for some fonts from the FontSite500 CD on the Font Site page, by Holger Sch�ner
typescripts for lazy font combinations on the Flexi Face page
some pointers on extending typescripts to accommodate access to “variants,” like old-style figures, are on the Font Variants page
Fonts in XeTeX gives some details about the XeTeX-specific typescripts in type-xtx

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.
Configuration of fonts for Vietnamese.
In newer distributions, map files belong in …/fonts/map/pdftex/context!
Don't forget to look at cont-sys.tex!

For me, typescripts only work if I activate \autoloadmapfilestrue and \resetmapfiles in cont-sys.tex --Hraban 2004-08-23

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 * [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mmakempy.pdf making outlines] by Pragma
 * [http://pragma-ade.nl/fonttest.pdf Here] you can try out several TeX fonts online (PDF interface!)
-* [[Tips from experience]] - getting specific fonts to work; including: Century Gothic.
+* [[Tips from experience]] - including: solving texfont problems.
 ==Typescripts==