Re: iso latin 2 ; storm fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Vit Zyka wrote:
>> Adam Lindsay wrote:
>>
>>> Vit Zyka said this at Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:34:13 +0100:
>>>
>>>> The question is how to elegantly switch from standard (st2) tfm to 
>>>> extended (st3) tfm when the glyph is not present in st2 - with 
>>>> preserving \rm, \bf, \it, \bi.
> 
>  >>
> 
>>> basically, you declare a variant set for a (Serif/Sans/Mono) family:
>>> \definefontvariant  [Serif] [exp]         [-Expert]                   
>>> % [fam]   [call abbrev] [synonym suffix]
> 
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> thanks to Adam, it was easy to implement font variants. A little bit 
> more work was with all Storm glyph deffinition in two (+one) encodings. 
> Before I will do the support for the rest of my Storm font families I 
> want to ask audience (and especially Hans, Adam) to have a look into the 
> files (http://typokvitek.com/tmp/context-storm.zip). Example in 
> http://typokvitek.com/tmp/test-sdynamo.pdf (generaly interesting for all 
> \show... font related command usage). Recommendation for the package 
> improvements are welcomed.
> 
> There are:
>   enco-st1.tex - ec encoding with storm glyph extension
>   enco-st2.tex - xl2 encoding with storm glyph extension
>   enco-st3.tex - variants (additional glyph) for enco-st1 and enco-st2
>   type-sdynamo.tex - typescripts for Storm Dynamo font family
>   math-sto.tex - simple mathematics present in Storm fonts (in progress)
>   test-sdynamo.tex - test file
>   test-storm.tex - support for tests
> 
> Questions:
> 
> ? During encoding deffinition I found some chracter name mess. I solved 
> it by synonyms:
>   E.g. \definecharacter textdag        {\dagger}
>        \definecharacter paragraphmark  {\paragraph}
>        \definecharacter textellipsis   {\ellipsis}
>        \definecharacter textminus      {\minus}
>        \definecharacter ostroke        {\oslash}
>        \definecharacter textdollar     {\dollar}
> Is there some context convention for character names?
> 
> ? I have a problem to define mathematics chars. I did:
> \starttypescript [math] [dynamoRE] [st1]
>   \definefontsynonym [DynamoRE-Math-Letters]        [sdgr8te] 
> [encoding=st1]
>   \definefontsynonym [DynamoRE-Math-Letters-Italic] [sdgri8te] 
> [encoding=st1]
>   \definefontsynonym [DynamoRE-Math-Symbols]        [sdgr8te]
> %  \definefontsynonym [DynamoRE-Math-Extension]        []
> \stoptypescript
> 
> \starttypescript [math] [dynamoRE] [name]
>   \definefontsynonym [MathRoman]     [DynamoRE-Math-Letters]
>   \definefontsynonym [MathItalic]    [DynamoRE-Math-Letters-Italic]
>   \definefontsynonym [MathSymbol]    [DynamoRE-Math-Symbols]
>   \definefontsynonym [MathExtension] [ComputerModernMath-Extension]
> \stoptypescript
> 
> \starttypescript [DynamoRE] [st1,st2]
>   \definetypeface [DynamoRE] [ss] [sans] [dynamoRE] [default] 
> [encoding=\typescripttwo]
>   \definetypeface [DynamoRE] [mm] [math] [dynamoRE] [default] 
> [encoding=\typescripttwo]
> \stoptypescript
> 
> \startmathcollection[storm]
>   \definemathcharacter [+] [bin] [sy] ["2B]
>   \definemathcharacter [=] [rel] [sy] ["3B]
> \stopmathcollection
> 
> \enablemathcollection[storm]
> 
> $1+1=2$
> 
> But I get error: !Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.
> Where is the problem?
> 
> ? - \starttypescript [*] [fallback] is generaly useful. Is a good idea 
> to move it from large type-buy.tex somewhere else?
> 
> ? Storm fonts have different accent shapes for lover/upper case letters. 
> Is there some mechanism to distinguish this making the composits?
> 
> Thank you
> Vit
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