From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 7 15:42:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6853016A41B for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D281913C465 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:42:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup211.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.211]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id l97Ffkao019621 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:42:10 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l97Ffedl002335; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:41:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l97FfO2U002333; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:41:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:41:24 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Frank Jahnke Message-ID: <20071007154124.GD1866@kobe.laptop> References: <1191604254.2944.12.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <86k5q1gs8t.fsf@Llea.celt.neu> <1191621784.2944.60.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <20071006092228.GA2185@kobe.laptop> <1191685849.960.4.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1191685849.960.4.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.913, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.49, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Equations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:42:28 -0000 On 2007-10-06 08:50, Frank Jahnke wrote: >On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 12:22 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Since the first releases of TeX, there have been many interesting >> developments about font-handling in the TeX world, like the typeface >> definitions of ConTeXt, and the drop-in packages of LaTeX which allow >> one to use Palatino, Helvetica, and other classic fonts. > > I figured this was the case, and it makes a difference. This is OT, > but do you have a link that describe what font families are available? > I assume the Postscript base set is easy. But how about the others? > > Continuing the OT, it is also interesting that the desktop publishing > applications that I am aware of (an that is certainly incomplete) do > not handle equations very well either. Scribus didn't the last time I > looked; Frame might but that is not really an option. ConTeXt includes several pre-defined `typescripts'. If you want to read more details about fonts in ConTeXt, then the wiki of ConTeXt may be useful; especially the pages: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TypeScripts One of the examples which I like a lot is the installation of `Lucida' fonts in ConTeXt: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Lucida The font installation instructions use Windows-like pathnames, but they are easy to translate to `Unix-speak' too :-) To answer the original questions: ``what font families are available?'' ``I assume the Postscript base set is easy.'' There are several typescripts available as predefined typescripts in ConTeXt. A nice demo of these typescripts in action can be found at: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/showfont.pdf This example PDF includes a typescript demo which uses the standard PostScript(TM) fonts (Times, Courier, and Helvetica) too :-)