From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15683 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Gushee Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Virtual font tip Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:31:16 -0600 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040708173115.GB16728@swordfish> References: <20040708135035.GA16728@swordfish> <20040708152503.18185@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089308067 12484 80.91.224.253 (8 Jul 2004 17:34:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:34:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Jul 08 19:34:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bicmo-0002nX-00 for ; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:34:18 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FF610B57; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:34:15 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mz1.forethought.net (mzpi3.forethought.net [216.241.36.12]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7935410B27 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:31:18 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from [216.241.35.41] (helo=swordfish) by mz1.forethought.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Bicjs-0002Ap-S4 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 11:31:16 -0600 Original-Received: from matt by swordfish with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bicjs-0004mH-00 for ; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 11:31:16 -0600 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040708152503.18185@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: Matt Gushee List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15683 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15683 On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:25:03PM +0100, Adam Lindsay wrote: > Don't be discouraged, Matt. Oh, I wasn't really discouraged, just mildly sarcastic (as much as I dare to be toward someone who was just trying to help ;-) > I think your tool is really nifty--it's precisely one of those "if I have > time, I'll learn about VPLs" projects that I wanted to have realised at > some point. Your solution goes far beyond the FontSite500 support, as far > as I can see. Yes and no. Probably the technique is generally applicable, but the specific script I used relies on: * The way FontSite organizes their font families (including the specific code points assigned to the ligatures, which may be common but are probably not universal); * The file names generated by texfont; and * The organization and formatting of the VPL files that I had to work with. I expect these will vary depending on a number of circumstances, but I don't know exactly how. I would welcome suggestions (or patches) that will help make the script more generally useful. Thanks for the encouragement. -- Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through mgushee@havenrock.com its fields; http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, Horses bear soldiers through its streets. --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)