fleurons - reprise

fleurons - reprise

[Keith McKay]

Thanks to Hans and Adam for the helpful advice.  The code from Adam looked a
bit daunting to me as a learner at first but when I changed [pzdr] to [uzdr]
it worked fine.  I attach the output from Adam's code which also includes
his query about symb-run in a previous message. Hope this is of use.  From
the further discussion between them I hope I didn't open a can of worms.

One last question.  I did a search on the web for fleuron fonts and came up
with a few interesting hits.  To use these in Context is it a case of
following the 'Texfont explained' and 'Fonts in Context' manuals?  I think I
have seen some 'My Way' (or is it 'This way'... well, 'Whatever way' ;>) )
on the Wiki about this as well.  I realize this is not a trivial pursuit for
a beginner but I would like to give it a try. Are there any pitfalls to look
out for or should I just dive in?

Thanks
Keith

Keith McKay
Hamilton, Scotland

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Re: fleurons - reprise

[Adam Lindsay]

Keith McKay said this at Tue, 31 May 2005 20:16:19 +0100:

>Thanks to Hans and Adam for the helpful advice.  The code from Adam looked a
>bit daunting to me as a learner at first but when I changed [pzdr] to [uzdr]
>it worked fine.

Oh good. The available fonts and metrics (sadly) vary with every
distribution, so that's a hard thing to get right.

Sorry the code was dense. If you want it broken down and explained, let
me know.

>  I attach the output from Adam's code which also includes
>his query about symb-run in a previous message. Hope this is of use.  From
>the further discussion between them I hope I didn't open a can of worms.

The attachment was probably too big for the list--if you want another
pair of eyes on it, feel free to send it off-list.

>One last question.  I did a search on the web for fleuron fonts and came up
>with a few interesting hits.  

Yeah, I picked up the Fleurons of Hope recently, and have been thinking
of interesting ways to use it in ConTeXt.
<http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontaid/fleurons-of-hope/>

>To use these in Context is it a case of
>following the 'Texfont explained' and 'Fonts in Context' manuals?  I think I
>have seen some 'My Way' (or is it 'This way'... well, 'Whatever way' ;>) )
>on the Wiki about this as well.  

I think Bill McClain's page is a great place to start. My MyWays sort of
pick up on topics after that.

>I realize this is not a trivial pursuit for
>a beginner but I would like to give it a try. Are there any pitfalls to look
>out for or should I just dive in?

Dive in!
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Re: fleurons - reprise

[Joachim Trinkwitz]

Am 31.05.2005 um 23:48 schrieb Adam Lindsay:

> Yeah, I picked up the Fleurons of Hope recently, and have been  
> thinking
> of interesting ways to use it in ConTeXt.

Has someone looked at the free downloadable Web-O-Mints (both  
TrueType and Postscript: http://www.galapagosdesign.com/download/ 
index.html) or Fleurons.ttf (http://www.grsites.com/modperl/ 
fontview.cgi?dir=f&fn=FLEUR_TT), both very attractive lokking sets of  
traditional ornaments and border pieces?

Regards,
joachim

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Re: fleurons - reprise

[John R. Culleton]

n Tuesday 12 July 2005 08:22 am, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> Am 31.05.2005 um 23:48 schrieb Adam Lindsay:
> > Yeah, I picked up the Fleurons of Hope recently, and have been
> > thinking
> > of interesting ways to use it in ConTeXt.
>
> Has someone looked at the free downloadable Web-O-Mints (both
> TrueType and Postscript: http://www.galapagosdesign.com/download/
> index.html) or Fleurons.ttf (http://www.grsites.com/modperl/
> fontview.cgi?dir=f&fn=FLEUR_TT), both very attractive lokking sets of
> traditional ornaments and border pieces?
>
> Regards,
> joachim
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color transparency

[luigi.scarso]

Hi, I'm sure that i have seem a nice pdf (not msplit.pdf) with an 
example of colors
transparencies and combinations.
If i  remember, there was 3 or 4 colored rectangles stacked at the 
first/second page of this pdf ...
I have search on pragma site, but without results.

Can somebody help me ?

Thanks in advance
luigi

Re: color transparency

[Hans Hagen]

luigi.scarso wrote:

> Hi, I'm sure that i have seem a nice pdf (not msplit.pdf) with an 
> example of colors
> transparencies and combinations.
> If i  remember, there was 3 or 4 colored rectangles stacked at the 
> first/second page of this pdf ...
> I have search on pragma site, but without results.

\setupcolors[state=start]

\definecolor [luigi]  [r=1,t=.5,a=1]
\definecolor [scarso] [b=1,t=.5,a=1]

\starttext

\startTEXpage
\blackrule[width=2cm,height=2cm,color=luigi]\hskip-1cm
\blackrule[width=2cm,height=2cm,color=scarso]
\stopTEXpage

\stoptext

since you could not find the trick ... this looks wikiable to me 

Hans 

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Re: color transparency

[Brooks Moses]

At 12:44 PM 7/13/2005, Hans Hagen wrote:
>\setupcolors[state=start]
>
>\definecolor [luigi]  [r=1,t=.5,a=1]
>\definecolor [scarso] [b=1,t=.5,a=1]
>
>\starttext
>
>\startTEXpage
>\blackrule[width=2cm,height=2cm,color=luigi]\hskip-1cm
>\blackrule[width=2cm,height=2cm,color=scarso]
>\stopTEXpage
>
>\stoptext
>
>since you could not find the trick ... this looks wikiable to me

I've added it to http://contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Colors.

- Brooks

Re: color transparency

[luigi.scarso]

Brooks Moses wrote:

> I've added it to http://contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Colors.
>
> - Brooks
>
Really good; thanks.
Some pdfs:

   1. rgb-cmyk.pdf
   2. cmyk-rgb.pdf
   3. art-colo.pdf
   4. msplit.pdf
   5. metafun-s.pdf, Special effects, pag 317
   6. mag-0006.pdf
   7. cont-eni.pdf,  Color and background

luigi