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Font handling = How to use fonts in ConTeXt is “strange” for LaTeX users='''The ConTeXt way of handling fonts are [[TypeScripts]]. ''' It’s a system of abstraction and aliases, complex and mighty… But there’s helpwhich may seem “strange” at first for new users of ConTeXt.* If it fits your needs, consider first to use the former [[Simplefonts]] module, now in the core as {{src|font-sel.mkvi}}.* There is now a [http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-fonts.pdf manual chapter on fonts]. * If you happen to use [[XeTeX]], then you can forget almost all the magic and start using your system fonts (see [[Fonts_in_XeTeX]]). * If you use [[LuaTeX]], see [[Fonts_in_LuaTeX]]* If you want to keep using [[pdfTeX]], read on:.

Specific page deals with * [[Fontsize|What defines the size in a font?]] * [[Optical Size]]* '''The ConTeXt way of using fonts are [[TypeScriptsLigatures]] = Font support & configuration === Type 1 fonts == Type 1 fonts come in multiple files.The various components are: * '''.pfb''': "Printer Font, Binary".* [http'''.pfa'''://www"Printer Font, ASCII".pragma-ade* '''.com/general/manuals/mtexfontpfm''': "Printer Font Metrics", binary.pdf font installation with texfont] by Pragma* [http'''.afm'''://www"Adobe Font Metrics". Typically each font will have a set of outlines in a pfb or pfa file, and a set of metrics in a pfm or afm file. Which file variations are preferred depends on platform. Linux prefers pfa and afm (the ASCII versions). Windows prefers pfb and pfm (the binary versions). Mac OS X prefers pfm and afm.pragma On the Mac, you may encounter old-adestyle PostScript Type 1 fonts which have an extensionless file containing the font outlines.com/general/manuals/mfontsThese are a relic from the days when bitmaps were used to display fonts on screen, and the PostScript was downloaded to the printer.pdf ConTeXt's Your best bet is to throw them away and get an up-to-date OpenType version, or use a font mechanism in detail] by Pragmaediting utility such as fontforge to convert them. * [http://wwwOn Windows 7, the OS will identify only the .pfm file as the actual font.pragma-adeHowever, when you install the font, Windows invisibly locates the matching .com/general/manuals/mmakempypfb file from the same directory, and copies them both to the C:\Windows\Fonts directory.pdf making outlines * Using [[psnfss]] by Pragmametrics in ConTeXt* Matt Gushee's introduction to [http://pragma-adematt.gushee.nlnet/doc/tex/fonttestbookfonts.pdf Herehtml virtual fonts] you can try out several TeX , especially for getting expert fonts online (PDF interface!)to work.* Troubleshooting: solving [[TeXfontURW Garamond]] problems.* Character [[ProtrusionLucida]] (also known as hanging or : large font handling) is a more subtle typographic effectfamily designed by Bigelow & Holmes; suitable e.g.* [[Font Handling Internals]]for presentations* [http://homepagedl.maccontextgarden.comnet/atlmyway/tex/ Adam Lindsay's pageexpertfonts.pdf Installing Expert Fonts: Minion Pro] focuses on typography (OpenTypeby Idris Samawi Hamid; contains step-by-step instructions, Unicode etc.), esp. on MacOS Xfrom preinstallation to writing typescripts* [http://homewww.salamanderstormtype.comStorm Type Foundry] : [http:/~wmcclain/context-helpmodules.contextgarden.html Bill McClain's ConTeXt beginners pagenet/stormfontsupport support] has also a lot about of selected fonts == True Type fonts==

* [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/expertfonts.pdf Installing Expert Fonts: Minion Pro] by Idris Samawi Hamid; contains step-by-step instructions, from preinstallation to writing typescripts* [[Pseudo Small CapsPalatino Linotype under MKIV]] by Vit Zyka.* Matt Gushee's introduction to [http://havenrock.com/textips/bookfonts.html virtual fonts], especially for getting expert == OpenType fonts to work.==* [[URW Garamondotfinstall|otfinst - a script for using OpenType fonts in ConTeXt]] == Basic Hints ==

'''ConTeXt does not make pdfetex pdfeTeX read <tt>pdftex.map</tt>.'''

=ConfigurationUnsorted links = * Using [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexfont.pdf font installation with texfont] by Pragma* [psnfsshttp://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mfonts.pdf ConTeXt's font mechanism in detail]by Pragma* [http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb28-2/tb89mahajan.pdf ConTeXt basics for users: Font styles] by Aditya Mahajan (2007)* [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mmakempy.pdf making outlines] metrics in ConTeXtby Pragma* Matt Gushee about [http://havenrockpragma-ade.com/textipsspecials/fonts/bookfontsfontspecial-p.pdf Here] you can try out several TeX fonts online (PDF interface!)* Troubleshooting: solving [[TeXfont]] problems.* Character [[Protrusion]] (also known as hanging or font handling) is a more subtle typographic effect.* [[Font Handling Internals]]* [http://watershade.net/wmcclain/context-help.html virtual Bill McClain's ConTeXt beginners page] has also a lot about fonts* [[Pseudo Small Caps]] by Vit Zyka* [[Understanding how fontswork in ConTeXt]]

= Available Free Fonts =* [http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/survey.html Free Math Fonts] : overview of different free Math fonts; [http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hartke/computer/latex/freefonts.php links to other free fonts]* [http://greekfontsociety.org/ GFS Didot] : Latin, full set of polytonik Greek, small caps, oldstyle figures, full f-ligatures ([http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot Module for ConTeXt])* [http://www.janusz.nowacki.strefa.pl/kurier.html Foto Alfa] : some TeX related fonts from Poland (Antykwa Toruńska. Antykwa Półtawskiego, Kurier, Iwona...)* [http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net Libertine Open Fonts Project]: GPL/OFL serif font* [http://scripts.sil.org SIL International] : great Unicode fonts for scholars by SIL (Gentium, Doulos, Charis, etc.)* [http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/GreekKeys.html GreekKeys] : links to polytonic Greek fonts* [http://scholarsfonts.net Scholar's Fonts] : Font for Scholars (Latin, Germanic languages, Greek, Hebrew and Linguistics)* [http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/junicode/junicode.html Junicode] : Junius-Unicode, a font for medievalists* [http://www.freelang.net/fonts/index.html FreeLang fonts] : fonts for exotic languages* [http://www.blambot.com Blambot] : Comic fonts* [http://www.chank.com/freefonts.php Chank] : some free Chank fonts* [http://www.fontface.com/fonts/ FontFace] : free fonts* [http://www.dafont.com DaFont] : more free fonts* [http://fonts.tom7.com/fonts98.html Divide by Zero] : more fonts* [http://moorstation.org/typoasis/typoasis1.htm TypOasis] : lots of nice fonts, but a bit hard Where to find (have a look at designers Apostrophic Lab, Manfred Klein and Dieter Steffmann)* [http://kadyellebee.com/fonts/ Kristine's Font Organization] : find a font in a sorted directory* [http://www.fontlover.com FontLover] : font news portal site* [http://www.pismolijna.cz/free.html Lido] : OpenType and TrueType typeface by Storm Type Foundry, free for non-commercial use.* ''... many more to be added ...'' =Hints by Language=* general: [[Encodings and Regimes]]* [[Arabian and Hebrew]] (Idris? other ArabTeX specialists?)* [[Chinese]]* [[Greek]]* [[Russian]]* [[Vietnamese]]

You can have a look to [[Category:Available Free Fonts]]from the web.