* Re: Create pseudo small caps.
2003-09-03 21:34 ` John Culleton
@ 2003-09-04 5:29 ` Adam Lindsay
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From: Adam Lindsay @ 2003-09-04 5:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
John,
First off, make sure you don't already have the font buried somewhere. I
found Charter SC (faked) in my TeXLive 7 installation:
\showfont[bchrc8t]
Ah, but there's a typo/omission in type-enc.tex. That particular line
should be:
\definefontsynonym [ec-bchr8a-capitalized-800] [bchrc8t] [encoding=ec]
If you put that single line in your input file, and then call the default
charter face with:
\usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r]
\definetypeface[charter][rm][serif][charter][default][encoding=ec]
\setupbodyfont[charter]
...you should be set. If the font isn't there, or you prefer to use
something other than ec-encoding, then read on.
As for texfont, I have only done this particular one using texfont in a
batch mode, but it should be at least close to the mark.
Make sure the directory tree where you find your fonts is writeable. Make
sure that $texmf/fonts/afm/bit is correctly named 'bitstrea'. (ah,
another bug, this time in TeXLive...)
texfont /path/to/context/data/type-tmf.dat --en=8r --inst -make \
--fontroot=/path/to/texmf-fonts --co=charter --ve=bitstrea
This should (I'm a little rusty) run texfont on Hans's built-in
batchfile, selecting only charter. With that done, I think this ought to work:
\definetypeface[charter][rm][serif][charter][default][encoding=8r]
\setupbodyfont[charter]
If you want to run texfont only to make smallcaps, I think the command
you want is:
sudo texfont --en=ec --fontroot=/path/to/texmf-local --inst --make \
--ve=bitstrea --co=charter --source=auto --ca=0.8 bchr8a
I'll leave it to you to integrate that one into your typescript.
I was going to ask about the \kap series of commands, but none seem to
give a mix of (faked) caps and small caps.
Hope that helps a bit,
adam
John Culleton said this at Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:34:04 -0400:
>On Tuesday 02 September 2003 16:06, John Culleton wrote:
>> I am using Bitstream Charter following the directions on Bill
>> McClain's page for typescripts. Now I want to use \sc in both regular
>> and expanded form. What is the best way to add a \sc typeface to my
>> file?
>
>Bill McC suggested that Texfont could be used to create a small caps
>version but I haven't figured it out yet. If I don't find any other
>answer I will either use a small caps font from another typeface or
>else
>do a kludge like
> \fonta H\fontb ELLO
>---to get "Hello" in caps and small caps,
>\fonta being Charter at 11pts and \fontb being Charter at perhaps 6pts.
>Surely there is a better way??
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