gtamac symbols and mkiv

gtamac symbols and mkiv

[Jörg Hagmann]

I have been using symbols (such as "Fleuron") from the gtamacfonts in an 
annual publication.
Trying to change to mkiv: what exactly should I do to install them? So 
far, my attempts were not successful. (Attempts meaning: copying the tt 
fonts and the type- and other files that seem to have anything to do 
with it into my minimal installation, reloading the fonts and remaking 
the formats).

Thanks, Jörg

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Re: gtamac symbols and mkiv

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Jörg Hagmann wrote:

> I have been using symbols (such as "Fleuron") from the gtamacfonts  
> in an annual publication.
> Trying to change to mkiv: what exactly should I do to install them?  
> So far, my attempts were not successful. (Attempts meaning: copying  
> the tt fonts and the type- and other files that seem to have  
> anything to do with it into my minimal installation, reloading the  
> fonts and remaking the formats).
>
> Thanks, Jörg


The answer is short and will be disappointing: gtamacfonts was  
developed for mkii and will not work with mkiv. If you want just a  
couple of symbols, it should be easy to write a few macros to get  
them, but the motivation behind gtamacfonts was just to make these  
fonts available for TeX, and with mkiv, they are available.

ALl best

Thomas

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Re: gtamac symbols and mkiv

[Jörg Hagmann]

Thanks -- I did expect something of the kind. I need just "Fleuron" and 
"Crown"; could you give me a hint as to where I should look for an 
example -- a macro doing the same thing, something that could get me going?

Cheers, Jörg

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Jörg Hagmann wrote:
>
>> I have been using symbols (such as "Fleuron") from the gtamacfonts in 
>> an annual publication.
>> Trying to change to mkiv: what exactly should I do to install them? 
>> So far, my attempts were not successful. (Attempts meaning: copying 
>> the tt fonts and the type- and other files that seem to have anything 
>> to do with it into my minimal installation, reloading the fonts and 
>> remaking the formats).
>>
>> Thanks, Jörg
>
>
> The answer is short and will be disappointing: gtamacfonts was 
> developed for mkii and will not work with mkiv. If you want just a 
> couple of symbols, it should be easy to write a few macros to get 
> them, but the motivation behind gtamacfonts was just to make these 
> fonts available for TeX, and with mkiv, they are available.
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Re: gtamac symbols and mkiv

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Jörg Hagmann wrote:

> Thanks -- I did expect something of the kind. I need just "Fleuron"  
> and "Crown"; could you give me a hint as to where I should look for  
> an example -- a macro doing the same thing, something that could get  
> me going?
>
> Cheers, Jörg

The easies way would be:

\define\Fleuron%
   {\getglyph{name:hoeflertextornaments}{\char61522}}

If you want to know the numbers of the different ornaments: open the  
file hoeflertextornaments.tma, which will be in your luatex-cache,  
under fonts/otf. There's a section "unicodes" where you'll find all  
the names and the corrresponding values. (There's probably a more  
elegant way of achieving this, but that's what I used.)

If you want more than just a few glyphs, you can also define a  
symbolset from Hoefler Ornaments, see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Symbols

Thomas
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Re: gtamac symbols and mkiv

[Jörg Hagmann]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> The easies way would be:
>
> \define\Fleuron%
>   {\getglyph{name:hoeflertextornaments}{\char61522}}
>
> If you want to know the numbers of the different ornaments: open the 
> file hoeflertextornaments.tma, which will be in your luatex-cache, 
> under fonts/otf. There's a section "unicodes" where you'll find all 
> the names and the corrresponding values. (There's probably a more 
> elegant way of achieving this, but that's what I used.)
>
> If you want more than just a few glyphs, you can also define a 
> symbolset from Hoefler Ornaments, see 
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Symbols
>
Thank you, Thomas

Jörg
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