On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 01:10:06 +0100 "Mojca Miklavec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Am 2008-03-03 um 17:44 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > > > > > - or to patch ConTeXt to use xdv2pdf instead of xdvipdfmx + rewrite a > > > bunch of definitions that load Latin Modern (they should not be loaded > > > since xdv2pdf doesn't support "traditional TeX-installed fonts") > > > > Since there are OpenType LM fonts now, one could just install them > > for the OS. > > True. But there are to mechanisms to load fonts: by font name or by > filename. By filename only works in xdvipdfmx and by font name > requires the font to be installed (and thus cannot be made the > default/cannot be expected from users). > > If there were enough requests, xdv2pdf could be made optional by: > - providing an extra switch for texexec IRC this is already possible on a Mac, "texexec --xtx" use dvipdfmx and "texexec --xetex" use xdv2pdf to convert the DVI file to PDF. > - providing an alternative that doesn't use Latin Modern by filename > (which means either not loading OpenType LM at all or assuming that > it's installed) > > I just didn't feel that it would be necessary to support that (didn't > know the limitations of xdvipdfmx) when I was asking Hans to write > patches. If there are requests to do it, it could probably be done. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
