On 22 Mar 2005, at 20:40, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Now it works. Very nice and clear ways to get it. But both goodies don't work with OSX's Helvetica.dfont
If you try it with the .ttf you'll get:
Error: pdfetex (file Helvetica.ttf): can't find table `OS/2' ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!
Yes, I've run into that before: Apple doesn't include some "compatibility" tables (that TeX-centric utilities rely upon) in some of their platform fonts. I haven't found a good way to work with those TTFs.
And if instead you use the .pfb then you'll get the misplaced macrons and tildes that I've reported.
Just try this:
\loadmapline[+Helvetica Helvetica " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <Helvetica.pfb] \starttext \definedfont[Helvetica] TAVAT.Po T{}A{}V{}A{}T{}.{}P{}o
\showfont[Helvetica] R\d{o} R{\=o} R\~o \page\showcharacters \stoptext
Hum. I haven't tried to replicate that here, but that looks like it might be an encoding problem: ConTeXt doesn't know that you're using a texnansi encoding, so it synthesises the characters using the definitions in enco-def. Is the above file the only way you tested it?
Does this help?
\loadmapline[+Helvetica Helvetica " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <Helvetica.pfb]
\definefontsynonym[texnansi-Helvetica][Helvetica][encoding=texnansi]
\starttext
\definedfont[texnansi-Helvetica]
R\d{o} R{\=o} R\~o
\stoptextI know the HelveticaNeue is more beautiful ... but nevertheless it would be interesting why there is the above error (and how it can be solved).
I do think you're being greedy, but I have to admit I'm curious, too!
adam
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