From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ⅛ not displayed
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:52:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAD80E3.8090006@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <073864CB-FE9E-4520-BA8F-2AB56D56F1B7@googlemail.com>
On 30-10-2011 09:44, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 29.10.2011 um 18:27 schrieb Paul Menzel:
>
>> Dear ConTeXt folks,
>>
>>
>> some fractions (input using Compose) are not displayed in the resulting
>> PDF files.
>>
>> \starttext
>> ⅛ ist $\frac18$.
>>
>> ½, ⅓, ¼, ⅕, ⅙, ⅛
>> \stoptext
>>
>> I guess this is a font problem, but maybe fall backs could be added?
>
> You can’t expect from a font to have glyphs for each unicode symbol
> and automatic fallbacks are problematic because the fallback font should
> match with the regular font.
Indeed, and we should not go the route of all kind of messy fallbacks
just because tex could do it (using active characters or whatever
trickery) which on the average looks bad anyway. One should just choose
a proper font for the job to be done.
I added a replace option to \enabletrackers[fonts.missing=replace] (can
best be set before any font is loaded, so pretty soon) which will show
missing characters. Also,
context s-fonts-missing.mkiv
will show the legend (in the next beta that is). Btw, we already have
\enabletrackers [fonts.missing] and \enabletrackers
[fonts.missing=remove] for quite a while.
Hans
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-29 16:27 Paul Menzel
2011-10-29 21:12 ` ⅛ not displayed in Latin Modern Paul Menzel
2011-10-29 21:22 ` Paul Menzel
2011-10-30 8:44 ` ⅛ not displayed Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-30 8:49 ` luigi scarso
2011-10-30 10:04 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-30 16:52 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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