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What is PSNFSS?

PSNFSS is an abbreviation of ‘post script new font selecting system,’ a terminology from LaTeX. It is an additional package that is usually installed on your LaTeX system. One of its purposes is to access the standard postscript fonts that printers have built in, also known as the thirty five base fonts. Part of PSNFSS is a set of font metrics (the tfm-files) that allows TeX to use the fonts for typesetting (TeX only knows about metrics, not outlines).

PSNFSS contains the following fonts:

font familystylesKB nameConTeXt typescript
AvantGarde4: Book, Demi + ObliquepagNone - not a very suitable text font
Bookman4: Light, Demi + Italicpbkbookman
Courier4: (Normal), Bold + Obliquepcrcourier (tt)
Helvetica4: (Normal), Bold + Obliquephvhelvetica (ss)
Helvetica-Narrow4: (Normal), Bold + Obliquephv*n?
New Century Schoolbook4: Roman, Bold + Italicpncschoolbook
Palatino4: Roman, Bold + Italicpplpalatino
Symbol1: (Normal)psy?
Times4: Roman, Bold + Italicptmtimes
Zapf Chancery1: MediumItalicpzcchancery (cg!)
Zapf Dingbats1: (Normal)pzd(access through symbols)

How do I access these fonts from ConTeXt?

If you don't have installed the font metrics with ConTeXt's texfont, you will have to change an internal mapping of filenames with the commands

\usetypescript [adobekb][ec]
\loadmapfile[8r-base.map] % or context-base.map, if you have it

After that you can setup your font with

\setupbodyfont[pos]

and similar commands, like

\usetypescript[times][ec]
\setupbodyfont[times,12pt]

Note that in the case of “helvetica” these lines should be replaced with:

\usetypescript[helvetica][ec]
\setupbodyfont[helvetica,ss,12pt]

since helvetica is sans serif.

Here is an example:

\usetypescript [adobekb] [ec] %
\loadmapfile[8r-base.map]
\usetypescript[times][ec]
\setupbodyfont[times,12pt]

\starttext

\input knuth
\blank
And this is some maths with PostScript fonts. 
\startformula
{a \over b} = {c \over d} \iff ad - bc = 0, 
\qquad \int_0^{2\pi}\!\!\! \sin^2(x)dx =\pi, 
\qquad {\rm e}^{{\rm i}\pi} + 1 = 0,
\qquad \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}{1 \over k^2} = {\pi^2 \over 6}.
\stopformula
Some ligatures: ffi, ffl. 

\stoptext