* Context equivalent to \kern-1pt
@ 2000-11-18 9:58 Maarten Wisse
2000-11-18 11:17 ` siepo
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From: Maarten Wisse @ 2000-11-18 9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi all,
Still working on the birth announcement. I tried to do some manual kerning
tweaking on some of the characters, and I used \kern to achieve this.
However, this low level command seems (I quite sure about that) to influence
the allignment of the paragraph, which is centered by
\steluitlijnenin[midden] in the preamble.
So, my question is easy: is there a high level command in ConTeXt which does
manaual kerning and doesn't affect allignment?
Thanks for your comments,
Maarten Wisse
P.S. Just a note which might be interesting for ConTeXt users. Hans uses
Lucida fonts quite frequently, but they are not free. Now, in XFree86 4.0,
the new version of Windows which is used on Linux distributions, Y&Y has
freely provided a font called Lucidux which is a clone of Lucida. Make tfm
and vf out of that, and you have at least Lucida, Lucida Bright and Lucida
Sans. Nice for presentations for instance. Just change the presentation
style file to Lucidux and it's fixed.
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* Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt
2000-11-18 9:58 Context equivalent to \kern-1pt Maarten Wisse
@ 2000-11-18 11:17 ` siepo
2000-11-21 16:16 ` Lucida Bright fonts (was Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt) Christopher Tipper
2000-11-19 15:33 ` Context equivalent to \kern-1pt Hans Hagen
2000-12-13 15:04 ` Uwe Koloska
2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: siepo @ 2000-11-18 11:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 18 Nov, Maarten Wisse wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Still working on the birth announcement. I tried to do some manual
> kerning tweaking on some of the characters, and I used \kern to
> achieve this. However, this low level command seems (I quite sure
> about that) to influence the allignment of the paragraph, which is
> centered by
> \steluitlijnenin[midden] in the preamble.
> So, my question is easy: is there a high level command in ConTeXt
> which does manaual kerning and doesn't affect allignment? Thanks for
> your comments,
>
>
> Maarten Wisse
>
> P.S. Just a note which might be interesting for ConTeXt users. Hans
> uses Lucida fonts quite frequently, but they are not free. Now, in
> XFree86 4.0, the new version of Windows which is used on Linux
> distributions, Y&Y has freely provided a font called Lucidux which is
> a clone of Lucida. Make tfm and vf out of that, and you have at least
> Lucida, Lucida Bright and Lucida Sans. Nice for presentations for
> instance. Just change the presentation style file to Lucidux and it's
> fixed.
The Type1 versions of the Lucida fonts come with StarOffice 5.2, which
is free.
Siep
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* Lucida Bright fonts (was Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt)
2000-11-18 11:17 ` siepo
@ 2000-11-21 16:16 ` Christopher Tipper
2000-11-21 18:45 ` Lucida Bright fonts Christopher Tipper
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Tipper @ 2000-11-21 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ntg-context
> > Maarten Wisse
> >
> > P.S. Just a note which might be interesting for ConTeXt users. Hans
> > uses Lucida fonts quite frequently, but they are not free. Now, in
> > XFree86 4.0, the new version of Windows which is used on Linux
> > distributions, Y&Y has freely provided a font called Lucidux which is
> > a clone of Lucida. Make tfm and vf out of that, and you have at least
> > Lucida, Lucida Bright and Lucida Sans. Nice for presentations for
> > instance. Just change the presentation style file to Lucidux and it's
> > fixed.
>
> The Type1 versions of the Lucida fonts come with StarOffice 5.2, which
> is free.
>
> Siep
I've taken about 8 minutes looking at this issue with StarOffice 5.2 on windows, and it's not quite true. Certainly when I distill documents, Lucida comes out in native Type 1 in the output pdf's, but further investigation suggests that they start life as TrueType .ttf files, which of course lack ligatures and proper font-hinting. From what I can gather, StarOffice relies heavily on the JRE, which seems to have a bunch of classes to convert TrueType to Type1 "on-the-fly". Maybe somebody could correct me on this? Maybe different on Unices?
Christopher
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* Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt
2000-11-18 9:58 Context equivalent to \kern-1pt Maarten Wisse
2000-11-18 11:17 ` siepo
@ 2000-11-19 15:33 ` Hans Hagen
2000-12-13 10:46 ` Balazs Nagy
2000-12-13 15:04 ` Uwe Koloska
2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Hans Hagen @ 2000-11-19 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ntg-context
At 09:58 AM 11/18/00 GMT, Maarten Wisse wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Still working on the birth announcement. I tried to do some manual kerning
>tweaking on some of the characters, and I used \kern to achieve this.
>However, this low level command seems (I quite sure about that) to influence
>the allignment of the paragraph, which is centered by
>\steluitlijnenin[midden] in the preamble.
>So, my question is easy: is there a high level command in ConTeXt which does
>manaual kerning and doesn't affect allignment?
>Thanks for your comments,
Kern can be horizontal as well as vertical, so it depends a bit. Can you
give a simple example of how you are using it [given that the baby is not
yet born]?
>P.S. Just a note which might be interesting for ConTeXt users. Hans uses
>Lucida fonts quite frequently, but they are not free. Now, in XFree86 4.0,
>the new version of Windows which is used on Linux distributions, Y&Y has
>freely provided a font called Lucidux which is a clone of Lucida. Make tfm
>and vf out of that, and you have at least Lucida, Lucida Bright and Lucida
>Sans. Nice for presentations for instance. Just change the presentation
>style file to Lucidux and it's fixed.
Interesting. We need to look into that. The best way to handle this is
\definefontsynonym [LucidaBright] [Lucidux]
or whatever the names are, so, what are the names of the files?
Hans
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* Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt
2000-11-19 15:33 ` Context equivalent to \kern-1pt Hans Hagen
@ 2000-12-13 10:46 ` Balazs Nagy
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From: Balazs Nagy @ 2000-12-13 10:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:33:17PM +0100, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> At 09:58 AM 11/18/00 GMT, Maarten Wisse wrote:
> >
> >P.S. Just a note which might be interesting for ConTeXt users. Hans uses
> >Lucida fonts quite frequently, but they are not free. Now, in XFree86 4.0,
> >the new version of Windows which is used on Linux distributions, Y&Y has
> >freely provided a font called Lucidux which is a clone of Lucida. Make tfm
> >and vf out of that, and you have at least Lucida, Lucida Bright and Lucida
> >Sans. Nice for presentations for instance. Just change the presentation
> >style file to Lucidux and it's fixed.
>
> Interesting. We need to look into that. The best way to handle this is
>
> \definefontsynonym [LucidaBright] [Lucidux]
>
> or whatever the names are, so, what are the names of the files?
file font name
lcdxmo.pfa LuciduxMono-Oblique
lcdxmr.pfa LuciduxMono
lcdxro.pfa LuciduxSerif-Oblique
lcdxrr.pfa LuciduxSerif
lcdxso.pfa LuciduxSans-Oblique
lcdxsr.pfa LuciduxSans
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* Re: Context equivalent to \kern-1pt
2000-11-18 9:58 Context equivalent to \kern-1pt Maarten Wisse
2000-11-18 11:17 ` siepo
2000-11-19 15:33 ` Context equivalent to \kern-1pt Hans Hagen
@ 2000-12-13 15:04 ` Uwe Koloska
2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Uwe Koloska @ 2000-12-13 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Maarten wrote on Samstag, 18. November 2000 10:58:
>P.S. Just a note which might be interesting for ConTeXt users. Hans uses
>Lucida fonts quite frequently, but they are not free. Now, in XFree86 4.0,
>the new version of Windows which is used on Linux distributions, Y&Y has
>freely provided a font called Lucidux which is a clone of Lucida. Make tfm
>and vf out of that, and you have at least Lucida, Lucida Bright and Lucida
>Sans. Nice for presentations for instance. Just change the presentation
>style file to Lucidux and it's fixed.
Unfortunately this fonts have some gaps. Especially the german quotes are
not there. But there are other versions of Lucida family freely available.
StarOffice 5.2 (5.1?) comes with a great load of them. And in the "West"
variants also the german quotes are present. Maybe it is possible to make
a patchwork font with the help of virtual fonts.
Uwe
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* Re: FLOWchart: colored connections and other styles
@ 2002-04-16 0:04 John Culleton
2002-04-16 1:33 ` lucida bright fonts walter a kehowski
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: John Culleton @ 2002-04-16 0:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ntg-context
On Monday 15 April 2002 16:13, W. Egger wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> You need to make the metafun.mem and put it into e.g.
> texmf-var\web2c. This is not Windows specific. You obtain the file
> by running texexec --make metafun. Be aware, that the file is
> created in the directory where you run texexec.
>
> I hope this helps. Willi
More or less by dumb luck I followed earlier advice and ran:
texexec --make metafun
texexec --make
... and the file appeared in the correct directory and I could
execute the sample testchart.tex file. Then I tried a few charts and
ran into trouble. Then Hans H. pointed me to the manual. A few more
experiments and I was in business. I still don't understand what all
the parameters to \setupFLOWcharts do, but I found a combination
that will work and I am sticking to it :-)
Thanks again.
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* lucida bright fonts
2002-04-16 0:04 FLOWchart: colored connections and other styles John Culleton
@ 2002-04-16 1:33 ` walter a kehowski
2002-04-16 10:39 ` Hans Hagen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: walter a kehowski @ 2002-04-16 1:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
I have the Lucida Bright fonts installed and they work just fine with MiKTeX/yap/dvips/reader.
However, once I tried to use them with context I get the error message below.
What is the problem? How can I get context to recognize the fonts?
I've already checked the archive and there seemed to be no resolution posted
to a similar problem.
Walter Kehowski
%%% log file
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.1)
(preloaded format=cont-en 2002.4.14) 15 APR 2002 18:25
entering extended mode
**fonts-lbr
(fonts-lbr.tex{pdftex.cfg}
ConTeXt ver: 2001.11.13 fmt: 2002.4.14 int: english mes: english
language : language en is active
system : cont-new loaded
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex
systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex!
system (E-TEX) : [line 473] \ifcsname
)
system : cont-old loaded
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-old.tex
loading : Context Old Macros
)
system : cont-fil loaded
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-fil.tex
loading : Context File Synonyms
)
bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded
language : patterns 2-en-2 2-uk-2 2-de-2 2-fr-2 2-es-2 2-nl-2 loaded
specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-pre.tex
typescript : [serif,sans,mono,math,handwriting] [lucida] [name,special,defa
ult]
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-map.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\math-lbr.tex))
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex)
typescript : [serif,sans,mono,math,handwriting] [default] [size]
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-map.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex)
typescript : [map] [default] []
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-map.tex
pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-cmr.map
pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-euler.map
pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-logo.map
pdftex : needs map file: original-micropress-informal.map
) (C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex))
! Font \*12ptrmtf*=LucidaBright at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file
not f
ound.
\lastfontname ...idaBright at \scaledfont
\donoparsefontspec ...sname \lastfontname
\relax \the \everyfont \relax
\xxdododefinefont ...2}\newfontidentifier
\doresetrelativefontsize \f...
\fontstrategy ...ame #2#3#4#5#6\endcsname
\let \fontstrategy \gobbles...
<inserted text> ...talternative \fontsize
\fontstrategy \autofontsize...
\synchronizefont ... \the \fontstrategies
\ifskipfontcharacteristics ...
...
l.6 \setupbodyfont[lbr]
? X
No pages of output.
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* Re: lucida bright fonts
2002-04-16 1:33 ` lucida bright fonts walter a kehowski
@ 2002-04-16 10:39 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2002-04-16 10:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ntg-context
At 06:33 PM 4/15/2002 -0700, walter a kehowski wrote:
>(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex))
>! Font \*12ptrmtf*=LucidaBright at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file
>not f
>ound.
>\lastfontname ...idaBright at \scaledfont
>
>\donoparsefontspec ...sname \lastfontname
> \relax \the \everyfont \relax
>
>\xxdododefinefont ...2}\newfontidentifier
> \doresetrelativefontsize \f...
>\fontstrategy ...ame #2#3#4#5#6\endcsname
> \let \fontstrategy \gobbles...
><inserted text> ...talternative \fontsize
> \fontstrategy \autofontsize...
>\synchronizefont ... \the \fontstrategies
> \ifskipfontcharacteristics ...
>...
>l.6 \setupbodyfont[lbr]
does
[ber,lbr]
work? [i.e. berry names]
it looks like the SymbolicName onto filename mapping is missing.
alternatively you can use texfont to generate the lbr-texnansi alike tfm
files and specify \setupencoding[default=texnansi]
Hans
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* Re: One last thing:-)
@ 2002-04-17 7:53 Hans Hagen
2002-04-17 17:50 ` Let's try again:-> [was Re: One last thing:-)] Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2002-04-17 7:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ntg-context
At 02:44 PM 4/16/2002 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> >%--------------------hans-test.tex-----------------------
> >>\starttext
> >>
> >>\usetypescriptfile[type-xxx]
> >>\usetypescript[arabtest]
> >>\setupbodyfont[omarab,12pt]
> >>
> >>This is a test % This is a test
> >>
> >>\switchtobodyfont[big] This is a test
> >>
> >>\switchtobodyfont[global] This is a test
> >>
> >>\switchtobodyfont[small] This is a test
> >>
> >>\switchtobodyfont[8pt] This is a test
> >>
> >>\stoptext
> >
> >eh, do you mean that (in the example text) you don't get a sans font?
>
>Rather, the font-size-changing commands do not do anything. Each line
>above is printed in the sans font at the same size.
>
>Any idea what's wrong?
sure, the spec should say:
tf=SomeName sa 1
which means scaled at 1 times th ecurrent bodyfontsize
Hans
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* Re: Let's try again:-> [was Re: One last thing:-)]
@ 2002-04-17 17:50 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] ` <3CBE43E9.7565CE19@gcmail.maricopa.edu>
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2002-04-17 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ntg-context
At 08:32 AM 4/17/2002 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>\starttypescript [naskh] [omega] [size]
>
> \definebodyfont
> [20.7pt,17.3pt,14.4pt,12pt,11pt,10pt,9pt,8pt,7pt,6pt]
> [rm]
> [tf=Naskh,
> bf=NaskhBold]
tf=Naskh sa 1,
bf=NaskhBold sa 1,
....
Hans
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