* interesting font
@ 2005-12-15 14:49 Thomas A. Schmitz
2005-12-16 1:59 ` Adam Lindsay
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2005-12-15 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dear all,
quite by coincidence, I discovered a nice font for download. It is
called GFSDidot and can be downloaded at http://greekfontsociety.org/
typefaces.html
I became interested because it has a full set of polytoniko Greek
characters, but the Latin typeface (which resembles Palatino) is very
nice, too; it has (for the Regular variant) a full set of small caps,
oldstyle figures, and full f-ligatures, so it's almost an expert
font. The font is free; the readme says:
"You may use these fonts for personal and commercial use. These fonts
may be freely redistributed, provided that you do not alter them in
any way and that you credit GFS for this.
These fonts are distributed free and may not be sold or resold for
any purposes."
The font comes in the usual four variants as an OpenType font.
However, texfont and the lcdf-tools choked on the bold and bold
italic with this message:
../include/lcdf/vector.hh:52: failed assertion `i>=0 && i<_n'
After converting them to pfb/afm (via cfftot1), installation was
easy. If anyone (Adam??) can figure out what this message means, I'd
be grateful nevertheless.
Have a look and enjoy!
Best
Thomas
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* Re: interesting font
2005-12-15 14:49 interesting font Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2005-12-16 1:59 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-12-16 21:57 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
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From: Adam Lindsay @ 2005-12-16 1:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> The font comes in the usual four variants as an OpenType font. However,
> texfont and the lcdf-tools choked on the bold and bold italic with this
> message:
>
> ../include/lcdf/vector.hh:52: failed assertion `i>=0 && i<_n'
>
> After converting them to pfb/afm (via cfftot1), installation was easy.
> If anyone (Adam??) can figure out what this message means, I'd be
> grateful nevertheless.
I've seen it before, but I can't quite remember the context or solution.
My gut reaction is to say "update LCDFtools and try again". Eddie
Kohler, the author, would probably want to be pointed to the font and
use-case in case it's a bug on his end. It may well be faults in the
font, though.
adam
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* Re: interesting font
2005-12-16 1:59 ` Adam Lindsay
@ 2005-12-16 21:57 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2005-12-16 22:56 ` Patrick Gundlach
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2005-12-16 21:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
Yes, sometimes life can be as simple as that: the latest version of
lcdf-tools can handle the fonts without a problem. [Aside: according
to Gerben's installer, this version is version 2.36, dated
2005/12/29, this is very advanced AFAICT.] Thanks, Adam, I feel a bit
stupid now.
I like the font. Maybe we should have a repository somewhere on
Contextgarden where to put zips of metrics + map + encodings +
typescripts: Patrick?
Best
Thomas
On Dec 16, 2005, at 2:59 AM, Adam Lindsay wrote:
> I've seen it before, but I can't quite remember the context or
> solution. My gut reaction is to say "update LCDFtools and try
> again". Eddie Kohler, the author, would probably want to be pointed
> to the font and use-case in case it's a bug on his end. It may well
> be faults in the font, though.
>
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* Re: interesting font
2005-12-16 21:57 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2005-12-16 22:56 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-12-17 6:41 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
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From: Patrick Gundlach @ 2005-12-16 22:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
[...]
> I like the font. Maybe we should have a repository somewhere on
> Contextgarden where to put zips of metrics + map + encodings +
> typescripts: Patrick?
It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in
some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this
solution, would you?
So what do you imagine/propose?
Patrick
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* Re: Re: interesting font
2005-12-16 22:56 ` Patrick Gundlach
@ 2005-12-17 6:41 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2005-12-17 8:15 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2005-12-17 6:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in
> some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this
> solution, would you?
No, that's exactly what I had in mind. I just think some central
place for this stuff would be good. I'll send you a zip.
Best
Thomas
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* Re: Re: interesting font
2005-12-17 6:41 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2005-12-17 8:15 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-12-17 9:10 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2005-12-17 8:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>
> On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>
>> It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in
>> some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this
>> solution, would you?
>
>
> No, that's exactly what I had in mind. I just think some central place
> for this stuff would be good. I'll send you a zip.
Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them
on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation
easier for other users
Taco
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* Re: Re: interesting font
2005-12-17 8:15 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2005-12-17 9:10 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2005-12-17 9:33 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2005-12-17 9:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them
> on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation
> easier for other users
>
Not quite sure how I'd do that -- the stuff has to go into different
directories in order to be found. Or am I on the wrong track?
Thomas
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* Re: Re: interesting font
2005-12-17 9:10 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2005-12-17 9:33 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-12-17 11:11 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2005-12-18 13:56 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2005-12-17 9:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>> Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them
>> on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation
>> easier for other users
>>
> Not quite sure how I'd do that -- the stuff has to go into different
> directories in order to be found. Or am I on the wrong track?
Yes, but that is true for some modules as well. Just create
a zip that has the whole needed subtree below texmf, like so:
(aquamints as example)
doc/context/third/aquamints/readme
doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.tex
doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.pdf
tex/context/third/aquamints/t-symb-aquamints
fonts/map/galapag.map
fonts/tfm/galapag/aquamin.tfm
fonts/type1/galapag/AquaMin_.pfb
Do I make sense?
Taco
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* Re: Re: interesting font
2005-12-17 9:33 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2005-12-17 11:11 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2005-12-17 11:20 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-12-18 13:56 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2005-12-17 11:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
Oh OK, that's what I was thinking about anyway. And in this case, we
can even redistribute the fonts themselves, so the zip would contain
everything needed, users have just to unzip it and can go...
Best
Thomas
On Dec 17, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Yes, but that is true for some modules as well. Just create
> a zip that has the whole needed subtree below texmf,
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* Re: Re: interesting font
2005-12-17 9:33 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-12-17 11:11 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2005-12-18 13:56 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2005-12-18 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>
>> On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>
>>> Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them
>>> on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation
>>> easier for other users
>>>
>> Not quite sure how I'd do that -- the stuff has to go into different
>> directories in order to be found. Or am I on the wrong track?
>
>
> Yes, but that is true for some modules as well. Just create
> a zip that has the whole needed subtree below texmf, like so:
>
> (aquamints as example)
>
> doc/context/third/aquamints/readme
> doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.tex
> doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.pdf
>
> tex/context/third/aquamints/t-symb-aquamints
>
> fonts/map/galapag.map
> fonts/tfm/galapag/aquamin.tfm
> fonts/type1/galapag/AquaMin_.pfb
>
> Do I make sense?
sounds ok to me, if needed (when we get many such zips) we can always
split the wiki page (zips can or grouped anyway)
Hans
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