makempy.pl

makempy.pl

[Marc van Dongen]

Hi there,

I have a problem with makempy.pl and
plain metapost (no COnTeXt). When I
try to do something like:

graphictextdirective
  "\documentclass[]{article}" &
  "\fontencoding{T1}" &
  "\fontfamily{phv}" &
  "\fontseries{m}" &
  "\fontshape{it}" &
  "\fontsize{12}{15}" &
  "\selectfont" ;

The font for graphicstext is still the
same as defaultfont  I also tried to
select the font as part of the graphictext
but that didn't work either. What am I
doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Marc

Re: makempy.pl

[Hans Hagen]

At 01:02 PM 5/12/01 +0100, you wrote:

>I have a problem with makempy.pl and
>plain metapost (no COnTeXt). When I

latex is not plain -) 

>try to do something like:
>
>graphictextdirective
>  "\documentclass[]{article}" &
>  "\fontencoding{T1}" &
>  "\fontfamily{phv}" &
>  "\fontseries{m}" &
>  "\fontshape{it}" &
>  "\fontsize{12}{15}" &
>  "\selectfont" ;

How does the resulting tex file look? Is latex run? 

>The font for graphicstext is still the
>same as defaultfont  I also tried to
>select the font as part of the graphictext
>but that didn't work either. What am I
>doing wrong?

graphicstextformat := "latex" ; 

Hans
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Re: makempy.pl

[Marc van Dongen]

Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:

: How does the resulting tex file look? Is latex run? 

That got me looking in the right direction.
I should have dded a macro definition to
graphictextdirective which I had not. It was
in the
   verbatimtex
   \documentclass{article}
   ....
   \begin{document}
   etex;
preamble. Remarkably the omission of the macro definition
caused no errors.

[snip]

: graphicstextformat := "latex" ; 

I had that:-)

Thanks for the help.

BTW: I am designing a logo and am looking for some
fonts that don't look thin but thick. probably they
should be sans serif. Any suggestions?

Regards,

Marc

Re: makempy.pl

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:06 PM 5/13/01 +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:

>BTW: I am designing a logo and am looking for some
>fonts that don't look thin but thick. probably they
>should be sans serif. Any suggestions?

www.myfonts.com

has a nice interactive font selector

Hans 
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Re: makempy.pl

[Marc van Dongen]

Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:

[snip]

: www.myfonts.com
: 
: has a nice interactive font selector

Thanks. That looks pretty cool.

Regards,

Marc