Re: [NTG-context] notes on TeXLive and Truetype fonts

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 15:36:04 -0500 Bill McClain wrote:

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:09:53 -0400 "Bruce D'Arcus" wrote:

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I'd recommend ttf2tex for installing ttf fonts. It's a Bash script that uses ttf2tfm, but does everything for you but create the ConTeXt typescript(s).

I wasn't aware of that! It looks pretty good, except that the font files have to reworked into the Berry naming scheme. I've been ignoring 8-character name requirements and am still alive. I don't know why this convention is still used in the TeX world. Even MS has supprted long file names for years now.

The CD-Rom file system ISO9660 is limited (without using system specific extensions) to 8.3 file names. Jens