Nice guillemots

Nice guillemots

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

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Hello,

Attached to this mail are two small symbol modules I wrote,
temporary called symb-wnc and symb-lsy, that redefine the left and
right guillemots using respectively the wncyr fonts and the LaTeX
Symbol (LaSy) fonts. The latter are nicer but slower.

Two question:

(1) should they be named differently?

(2) can they be merged? Is there a way to pass options to module
so that they can select a certain predefined behaviour, and change
it when appropriate commands are issued? That is, I can do it 'the
TeX way', but I wonder if ConTeXt shouldn't provide a default
interface for this. something like

\usemodule[whatever][starting options]

\setmoduleoption[something]

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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%D \module
%D   [       file=symb-lsy,
%D        version=2001.10.23,
%D          title=\CONTEXT\ Symbol Libraries,
%D       subtitle=Guillemots from LaTeX Symbols,
%D         author=Giuseppe Bilotta,
%D           date=\currentdate,
%D      copyright={PRAGMA / Giuseppe Bilotta}]
%C
%C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is
%C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See mreadme.pdf for 
%C details. 

\unprotect

%D First of all, define the font file. TODO: how to choose the
%D appropriate font design size?

\definefontsynonym [LasySerif]        [lasy10]

\def\Lasy#1{\getglyph{Lasy}{\char#1}}

%D The LaSy font doesn't have double guillemots, but only left
%D and right single guillemots; we build the double ones by
%D duplicating the single one, shifted by half their size

\newdimen\LeftLazyShift
\newdimen\RightLazyShift

%D Since different sizes require different shifts, we have to
%D calculate it each time. Another way would be to plug into the
%D typescript stuff, and recalculate only at size-change time.
%D This way is slower but doesn't mess with internal stuff

\def\SetLeftLazyShift%
    {\setbox\scratchbox\hbox{\Lasy{40}}%
     \LeftLazyShift=.5\wd\scratchbox}

\def\SetRightLazyShift%
    {\setbox\scratchbox\hbox{\Lasy{41}}%
     \RightLazyShift=.5\wd\scratchbox}

%D Here we define the quick-access commands

\def\leftguillemot%
  {\dontleavehmode\hbox{\SetLeftLazyShift%
      \Lasy{40}\kern-\LeftLazyShift\Lasy{40}}}

\def\rightguillemot%
  {\hbox{\SetRightLazyShift%
      \Lasy{41}\kern-\RightLazyShift\Lasy{41}}}

\def\leftsubguillemot{\Lasy{40}}

\def\rightsubguillemot{\Lasy{41}}

\protect

\endinput 

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%D \module
%D   [       file=symb-wnc,
%D        version=2001.10.23,
%D          title=\CONTEXT\ Symbol Libraries,
%D       subtitle=Guillemots from the Cyrillic fonts,
%D         author=Giuseppe Bilotta,
%D           date=\currentdate,
%D      copyright={PRAGMA / Giuseppe Bilotta}]
%C
%C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is
%C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See mreadme.pdf for 
%C details. 

\unprotect

\definefontsynonym [GuillsSerif]        [wncyr10]
\definefontsynonym [GuillsSerifBold]    [wncyb10]
\definefontsynonym [GuillsSerifItalic]  [wncyi10]
\definefontsynonym [GuillsSerifCaps]    [wncysc10]
\definefontsynonym [GuillsSans]         [wncyss10]

\def\Guill#1{\getglyph{Guills}{\char#1}}

\def\leftguillemot{\Guill{60}}
\def\rightguillemot{\Guill{62}}

\protect

\endinput 

Re: Nice guillemots

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:32 PM 10/23/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Attached to this mail are two small symbol modules I wrote,
>temporary called symb-wnc and symb-lsy, that redefine the left and
>right guillemots using respectively the wncyr fonts and the LaTeX
>Symbol (LaSy) fonts. The latter are nicer but slower.

i come back to that later

(2) can they be merged? Is there a way to pass options to module
>so that they can select a certain predefined behaviour, and change
>it when appropriate commands are issued? That is, I can do it 'the
>TeX way', but I wonder if ConTeXt shouldn't provide a default
>interface for this. something like
>
>\usemodule[whatever][starting options]

actually there is something like that (at least in my version), based on 
modes, so sections can be marked with \startmode[starting options] and so.

Hans
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