Difference between revisions of "Fonts - Old Content"

Revision as of 20:59, 12 April 2005

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!)
Troubleshooting: solving TeXfont problems.
The ConTeXt way of using fonts are TypeScripts.

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://pragma-ade.nl/fonttest.pdf Here] you can try out several TeX fonts online (PDF interface!)
 * Troubleshooting: solving [[TeXfont]] problems.
+* '''The ConTeXt way of using fonts are [[TypeScripts]].'''
-==Typescripts==
-* [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/showfont.pdf examples of using typescripts] by Pragma
-* [http://www.ramm.ch/fiee/texnique/?menu=0-1-4&amp;lang=en example typescripts] for free and commercial fonts, by Hraban (partly outdated)
-* typescripts for some fonts from the FontSite500 CD on the [[Font Site]] page, by Holger Schöner
-* typescripts for lazy font combinations on the [[Flexi Face]] page
-* some pointers on extending typescripts to accommodate access to &ldquo;variants,&rdquo; like old-style figures, are on the [[Font Variants]] page
-* [[Fonts in XeTeX]] gives some details about the [[XeTeX]]-specific typescripts in <tt>type-xtx</tt>
 ==Configuration==