Re: Re: Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Stefan Wachter said this at Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:20:52 +0200:

>I tried the code of Patrick. It works for Times and Helvetica. Yet, if I 
>switch to monospace using \tt then Computer Modern fonts are used / 
>embedded. In addition, all this typescripts stuff is so confusing for me 
>that I prefer to use my own simple typescript.

Sorry. My mistake. I thought you were only interested in Helvetica as a
text font, so I didn't worry about the rest of the picture. The pre-
defined typescript is therefore:
\usetypescript[postscript][texnansi]

Courier is in there. (I usually think about the times typescript because
I really don't like how light URW's Courier is. The native one doesn't
look so bad.) The math mode is also in there, with the times math clone.
You can look in type-exa.tex for the prototype:
\starttypescript [postscript] [texnansi,ec,8r]
  \definetypeface [postscript] [rm] [serif] [times]     [default]
[encoding=\typescripttwo]
  \definetypeface [postscript] [mm] [math]  [times]     [default]
  \definetypeface [postscript] [ss] [sans]  [helvetica] [default]
[rscale=.9,encoding=\typescripttwo]
  \definetypeface [postscript] [tt] [mono]  [courier]   [default]
[rscale=1.1,encoding=\typescripttwo]
\stoptypescript

[Note the rscale= lines in there. It's a really nice feature for
equalising x-heights, so that the fonts work together better. You can
test it out with \showfontstrip .]

>Additionally, it would be great to have the 
>math mode work, too (with embedding of course).

You can copy the [math] line into your [pdf] typescript, and be done with
it. If you *really* want to be a font wizard, you can track the different
levels of abstraction through type-pre, type-siz, and type-enc. (type-siz
is especially strange--I'm still not sure if *anyone* understands it fully!)

I get what you're doing now, and I respect it. In fact, I learned the
most about typescripts by doing what you're doing: tearing them apart and
building up by scratch. Eventually I've learned (with Bill, Patrick,
Hans, and the list's help) just how much is made available by default.

>Now I wonder how to integrate the PDF base 14 ZapfDingbats and Symbols 
>font. Do you have a clue? 

Ah, it depends what you mean by "integrate." When I do \showfont[sy], I
see a bunch of greek and math symbols, but nothing sufficient for a full
math mode. When I do \showfont[zd], however, I see something resembling
Unicode vector 0x27nn. All it would take is a re-encoding to put the
glyphs in the right place.

For more details, see:
 <http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/UnicodeSymbol.pdf>
and especially the part following \startsymbolset[Unicode Dingbats] in
symb-uni.tex in:
 <http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/symb-uni.zip>


Email me off-list if you want a head-start integrating ZapfDingbats...

adam
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