Hi, Walter Schmidt has made the font DayRoman from Apostrophic Labs available to TeX. Currently the support package doesn't contain any ConTeXt support, i.e. typescripts. I've made for me a typescript for these fonts and now Walter is interested in including ConTeXt support in his package. His package is distributed as zip-file that can be directly unpacked in a texmf-tree. Thus, where should the typescript-file be located? In my private texmf-tree i use TEXMF/tex/context/user/typescripts/ and the file names start with "cts-" (i.e. cts-dayroman.tex). Is there some standard how to name typescripts and locate them in a texmf-tree, so that distribution of typescripts is possible in a controled way? BTW, i would prefer that \usetypescriptfile[dayroman] first tries to load dayroman.cts and if it is not available it tries dayroman.tex. Then we can use the extension "cts" for ConTeXt TypeScripts in the future. Best, Jens
Am Dienstag, 26.08.03, um 22:13 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Jens-Uwe Morawski:
Is there some standard how to name typescripts and locate them in a texmf-tree, so that distribution of typescripts is possible in a controled way?
I always name them "type-vendor-collection.tex" (e.g. "type-adobe-palatino.tex") and put them into mytexmf/tex/context/user Typescripts are simply TeX files -- you could put the commands even in your environment file or like that -- so they should stay with "tex" instead of inventing something new that nobody (and noproggy) understands. BTW: My typescripts files are updated, and my site finally shows file dates. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ (material/typescripts.zip)
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:12:09 +0200
Henning Hraban Ramm
Am Dienstag, 26.08.03, um 22:13 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Jens-Uwe Morawski:
Is there some standard how to name typescripts and locate them in a texmf-tree, so that distribution of typescripts is possible in a controled way?
I always name them "type-vendor-collection.tex" (e.g. "type-adobe-palatino.tex") and put them into mytexmf/tex/context/user
IMO, the problem is that an official external package should not put something in user/. Therefore i would prefer something like TEXMF/tex/context/type/, but here Hans has to agree so that future versions of ConTeXt do not use this directory too.
Typescripts are simply TeX files -- you could put the commands even in your environment file or like that -- so they should stay with "tex" instead of inventing something new that nobody (and noproggy) understands.
ok, on the other hand LaTeXs fd-files are only TeX files too. Jens
At 22:13 26/08/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Walter Schmidt has made the font DayRoman from Apostrophic Labs available to TeX. Currently the support package doesn't contain any ConTeXt support, i.e. typescripts.
I've made for me a typescript for these fonts and now Walter is interested in including ConTeXt support in his package.
His package is distributed as zip-file that can be directly unpacked in a texmf-tree. Thus, where should the typescript-file be located? In my private texmf-tree i use TEXMF/tex/context/user/typescripts/ and the file names start with "cts-" (i.e. cts-dayroman.tex).
Is there some standard how to name typescripts and locate them in a texmf-tree, so that distribution of typescripts is possible in a controled way?
locating is done with kpsewhich
BTW, i would prefer that \usetypescriptfile[dayroman]
first tries to load dayroman.cts and if it is not available it tries dayroman.tex. Then we can use the extension "cts" for ConTeXt TypeScripts in the future.
how about: /tex/context/third/typescripts cts-*.tex is ok for me, a tex suffix is to be prefered because of (1) syntax highlighting editors and (2) kpse file searching (also, cts-* is already denoting the kind of file) if we can have some kind of QA on packages (say: confirmed that things work) have no ptoblem with having a third party zip, although ctan is the most natural place for it (but i can mirror that) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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