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@ 2005-12-08 22:00 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2005-12-08 22:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Shankar Ramaswamy wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> This is shankar, one of your many admirers. I beg your pardon for
> disturbing you with my problem.
>
> I am a user of METAPOST. Lately I've started using your METAFUN. I
> thank you, for it is more fun working with METAFUN.
>
> The problem is, the macro "drawpointlabels" works well and produced
> the output as shown in metafun-p.pdf only in RedHat 9. But the labels
> will not appear when the same program is run either in Fedora or
> Slackware. I compared the macros present in RedHat 9 with those in
> Fedora and Slackware. There seems no difference.
>
> Please suggest a solution to overcome this problem with porting the
> program.
>
metafun assume at some points a cooperation between mp and tex, so maybe
that piece is failing
does
texexec --automp --pdf yourfile
work?
(if this is time-critical, you can try the minimal linus distribution on
the website)
btw, best post this to the context mailing list since there may be
fedora users out there
Hans
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2021-12-27 20:27 ` Thomas Savary via ntg-context
@ 2021-12-27 23:01 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
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From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context @ 2021-12-27 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users; +Cc: Hans Hagen
On 12/27/2021 9:27 PM, Thomas Savary via ntg-context wrote:
> Thanks, Hans, for your advice.
>
> > a probably more reliable solution is to 'remove bad stuff' from the
> > loaded font by running over the features and removing bad matches
> > (which is less sensitive for order)
>
> I could edit the font features, indeed, but I run a GNU/Linux OS, and
> Fontforge cannot edit nor generate variable fonts. There seems to be a
> solution (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQuWARCUWI
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQuWARCUWI> ), but so far beyond my
> technical capabilities that I cannot consider it.
>
> > is that really a google font? afaik it doesn't originate there (unless
> > it among those things that google grabs - and at some point possible
> > discards)
>
> Yes, it is, but not from the beginning. A great Garamond, the original
> font was designed by Georg Duffner. A few years ago, Google decided to
> make it a more complete font family : Octavio Pardo has done an
> excellent job with the bolder versions of EB Garamond and its conversion
> to a variable font. However, for whatever reasons, he did quite a rush
> job with the OpenType features ! Many essential features are lacking
> (despite the needed glyphs still being there), and most present features
> are poorly implemented, with a lot of typographic nonsense (concerning
> long s and long Q or the mentioned italic ligatures, for instance).
Strange, so basically only the shapes were taken an not the (in this
case closely related features)?
> https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond
> <https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond>
>
> I will contact Google Fonts shortly to report on the dozens of problems
> I have encountered that make the unfixed new version of EB Garamond
> unusable for anything but the most basic uses.
>
> Fortunately, my significantly more demanding needs for a client were met
> with the invaluable help from LuaTeX, but that won't be enough for my
> own projects, much more complex (facsimile of ancient editions), until
> Google improves this font.
So actually the old pre-google fonts from GD are better? Hopefully they
then stay available someplace.
Hans
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