From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/65888 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Using virtual fonts defined with lua-code Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:17:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4D516C92.2090206@wxs.nl> References: <1wdobeyo3bvv9$.dlg@nililand.de> <4D514F77.8010207@wxs.nl> <1s2e8pqmwqw3t.dlg@nililand.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297181882 19376 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2011 16:18:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:18:02 +0000 (UTC) To: news3@nililand.de, mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Feb 08 17:17:58 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PmqGJ-0001Fb-ET for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:17:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9BACAA16; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:17:53 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id cof0OJ7uK53F; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:17:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57096CA9FE; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:17:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C5FCA9FE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:17:49 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 6uYt4IueOSzC for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:17:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E34CA9F7 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:17:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p18GHkgC004997 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:17:47 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.1c2) with ESMTP id 3598-1713362 for multiple; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:17:43 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 ThunderBrowse/3.3.4 In-Reply-To: <1s2e8pqmwqw3t.dlg@nililand.de> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0eE5shKgC - f94c9461796f - 20110208 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:65888 Archived-At: On 8-2-2011 3:41, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:13:11 +0100 schrieb Hans Hagen: > >> On 8-2-2011 10:40, Ulrike Fischer wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> The luatex documentation contains in section "7.2.2 Example virtual >>> font" an example how to define a virtual font "cmr10-red". The font >>> is defined by adding the code to the define_font callback. > >>> Does some interface exists in contex/mkiv which allows to use such >>> virtual fonts together with the normal font loading code? E.g. could >>> I move the code for the font to some file ("cmr10-red.vflua") so >>> that a request \font\mytest="cmr10-red" will simply find this file >>> and use the code like vf, tfm or otf-files are found and used when >>> needed? > >> It's relatively easy to add support for that. > > That would be fine. There are quite often on various lists questions > about how to "correct" a font, e.g. adjust kerning, or add a missing > glyph etc and a interface for "virtual lua fonts" would make such > corrections much easier. > > The example in the documentation uses as base font cmr10 and loads > it with f = font.read_tfm('cmr10',size). How should one load the > real font when it is an otf? the lua file has to return a function that then gets a specification and has to return a tfmtable, something like return myhackery(specification) local t = fonts.tfm.read(specification) -- mess around with t return t end but I didn't test that. 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