Am 03.10.2013 um 16:29 schrieb Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu>:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> On 10/2/2013 9:47 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Is it possible to use Nibus Roman with MkIV.
>>> I have to send a document where the font used **must** be Times New
>>> Roman or Nimbus Roman. I tried using a clone (Termes), but I was told
>>> that I must use Times New Roman or Nimbus Roman. (It is a matter of
>>> regulations, so it is not possible for me to explain that Termes and
>>> Nibmus Roman are essentially the same).
>>> So, is it possible to use Nimbus Roman (type1 font) in MkIV?
>>
>> you can just force "file:somename.afm" .. mkiv will make a wide font of it
>> (map onto unicode) so you should be fine
>
> Thanks of lot!
>
> I could not get protrosion to work (against a deadline, so I did not try too
> hard), but the basic mechanism works well. For anyone else interested in
> this, here is the typescript that I used:
>
> \starttypescript [\s!serif] [times] [\s!name]
> \definefontsynonym [\s!Serif] [file:utmr8a.afm]
> \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifItalic] [file:utmri8a.afm]
> \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifBold] [file:utmb8a.afm]
> \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifBoldItalic] [file:utmbi8a.afm]
> \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifSlanted] [file:utmri8a.afm]
> \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifBoldSlanted] [file:utmbi8a.afm]
> \definefontsynonym [\s!SerifCaps] [file:texgyretermes-regular]
> [\s!features=\s!smallcaps]
> \stoptypescript
>
> ConTeXt does not ship with these afm files, so I just copied them from the
> texlive directory to current working directory.
Hi Aditya,
why don’t you use the version of Times New Roman which is available with the
mscore fonts* package,
it’s one the best ways to bet access to the fonts on a Linux machine.
* http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Wolfgang
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