Thanks for the boxes with schems

Thanks for the boxes with schems

[Charles P. Schaum]

Thanks, Hans, for the suggestion. It works quite well, except the \ae{}
macro starts producing a lowercase j. My guess is this refers to an
encoding issue, since I found that using \sc tends to not do small caps
except for using Computer Modern.

I did RTFM, but I'm just not making the connection. If someone can point
me to a document on fonts that I can work through ... the section in the
manual left me a little confused. After using Pagemaker, Quark, and
InDesign, I kinda get the approach but it seems to be a culture shock
like Metafont was and remains. I copied the examples from the manual
when I did a book mock-up for work and that worked real well. Everyone
was impressed by what ConTeXt could do, although the official workflow
will remain Incopy and InDesign. Still, I uotdid an experienced graphic
designer using Adobe CS3 with my little bit of code for schemas. ConTeXt
and friends have some unique benefits.

So if I could solve the font mystery, I would be grateful. I have some
books, for example, that I would like to reproduce with ConTeXt by
scanning the Fraktur and OCR'ing with tesseract, then doing the layout
with ConTeXt. I have an Ernestine Bible (Das Weimarische Bibelwerk) for
which the binding is shot but the pages are good. This way will take
much less than scanned images, although some images will remain.

Ultimately I would like to make something like yfonts, but with unicode
or some standard encoding to allow either umlauts or superscript e. In
my own library I have books from the early eighteenth century on, and
Google books has more, so there's no lack of subjects to scan into
Fontforge.

Charles


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Re: Thanks for the boxes with schems

[Hans Hagen]

Charles P. Schaum wrote:
> Thanks, Hans, for the suggestion. It works quite well, except the \ae{}
> macro starts producing a lowercase j. My guess is this refers to an
> encoding issue, since I found that using \sc tends to not do small caps
> except for using Computer Modern.

what encoding do you use? ec or texnansi .. and what font do you want to 
use?



Hans


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