On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 04:36 PM, Bill McClain wrote:
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.
Yeah, the author of the script (Philipp Lehman) was involved in a discussion on the TeX fonts list about creating a next-generation font naming/installation scheme that would fix these issues. The tricky thing is how you tell the installer to map the font names to TeX constructs, which isn't so easy (texfont certainly doesn't do that). In the case of ttf2tex, you rename the files so that it can create the LaTeX .fd files. In theory, then, it could be extended to auto-create ConTeXt typescripts too. Bruce