* accented letters in mkiv
@ 2008-05-19 16:16 Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-05-19 18:04 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2008-05-19 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all,
sorry if this is obvious and I have simply overlooked something. I
need the character U0113 "emacron." It is not present in the font I
use. In mkii, I could simply write \=e, and TeX would take care of
building (faking) the character. When I try this in mkiv, I get an
error:
error: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:3329:
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
I'm not complaining about this somewhat opaque error message, but I'm
wondering how I can fake this glyph. There was an older discussion on
the list which pointed me to char-utf.tex and \definecomposedutf, but
the file says "This feature is obsolete." So what would be the
canonical way to build such a character in mkiv?
Thanks a lot, all best
Thomas
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* Re: accented letters in mkiv
2008-05-19 16:16 accented letters in mkiv Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2008-05-19 18:04 ` Hans Hagen
2008-05-19 19:52 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-05-19 20:52 ` Hans Hagen
2008-05-19 20:54 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2008-05-19 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry if this is obvious and I have simply overlooked something. I
> need the character U0113 "emacron." It is not present in the font I
> use. In mkii, I could simply write \=e, and TeX would take care of
> building (faking) the character. When I try this in mkiv, I get an
> error:
>
> error: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:3329:
> attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
>
> I'm not complaining about this somewhat opaque error message, but I'm
> wondering how I can fake this glyph. There was an older discussion on
> the list which pointed me to char-utf.tex and \definecomposedutf, but
> the file says "This feature is obsolete." So what would be the
> canonical way to build such a character in mkiv?
use the feature:
combine=yes
maybe you're lucky
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* Re: accented letters in mkiv
2008-05-19 18:04 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2008-05-19 19:52 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-05-19 20:48 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2008-05-19 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On May 19, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> use the feature:
>
> combine=yes
>
> maybe you're lucky
:-) No such luck, unfortunately. I have now found a post by Taco on a
similar problem and use this:
\catcode`\ē=\active \def ē{\buildtextaccent\textmacron e}
Works well!
Thomas
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* Re: accented letters in mkiv
2008-05-19 19:52 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2008-05-19 20:48 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2008-05-19 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On May 19, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> use the feature:
>>
>> combine=yes
>>
>> maybe you're lucky
>
> :-) No such luck, unfortunately. I have now found a post by Taco on a
> similar problem and use this:
>
> \catcode`\ē=\active \def ē{\buildtextaccent\textmacron e}
>
> Works well!
hm, but that will do it for *all* fonts
i have no plans yet to set up a mechanism for that; at some point we
will have a callback for missing characters and then we can think of
something more structural
btw, i wonder why combine does not work here
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* Re: accented letters in mkiv
2008-05-19 16:16 accented letters in mkiv Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-05-19 18:04 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2008-05-19 20:52 ` Hans Hagen
2008-05-19 21:30 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-05-19 20:54 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2008-05-19 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry if this is obvious and I have simply overlooked something. I
> need the character U0113 "emacron." It is not present in the font I
> use. In mkii, I could simply write \=e, and TeX would take care of
> building (faking) the character. When I try this in mkiv, I get an
> error:
>
> error: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:3329:
> attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
while next and next.id == glyph and next.subtype<256 and
next.font == currentfont do
local cn = characters[next.char]
if not cn or cn.description.class == 'mark' then
prev = next
next = next.next
else
should repair this
> I'm not complaining about this somewhat opaque error message, but I'm
well, eventually all such errors should go away
makes me wonder ... maybe in addition to combine i should have a
simplify feature (so that a missing emacron at least gives an e)
Hans
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* Re: accented letters in mkiv
2008-05-19 16:16 accented letters in mkiv Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-05-19 18:04 ` Hans Hagen
2008-05-19 20:52 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2008-05-19 20:54 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2008-05-19 20:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
can you try compose=yes
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* Re: accented letters in mkiv
2008-05-19 20:52 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2008-05-19 21:30 ` Arthur Reutenauer
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From: Arthur Reutenauer @ 2008-05-19 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> makes me wonder ... maybe in addition to combine i should have a
> simplify feature (so that a missing emacron at least gives an e)
That would be great indeed ... as a very very last resort ;-)
Arthur
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