From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: new font installation and missing ligatures
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 20:08:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020217200700.03fade30@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C6ECC6D.1A586DC8@salamander.com>
At 03:17 PM 2/16/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>I have installed a new font (Adobe Sabon) using texfont and have added
>the procedure and examples to my beginner's help page at
>http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html.
>
>Your comments and corrections are always welcome.
>
>The font is working well, except for one problem: no ligatures (fi, fl,
>``. ''. --. ---). The really strange aspect is that the ligatures _are_
>displayed by the \showligatures macro used by \ShowFont, but are _not_
>displayed in my own sample code. This is odd because looking at
>\showligatures, it just specifies the ligatures as plain text input.
>
>I can access the ligature gylphs by character number, for example by:
>
>\def\Endash{\getglyph{Serif}{\char150}}
>\def\Emdash{\getglyph{Serif}{\char151}}
>\def\Fl{\getglyph{Serif}{\char8}}
>\def\Fi{\getglyph{Serif}{\char12}}
>\def\OpenDquote{\getglyph{Serif}{\char147}}
>\def\CloseDquote{\getglyph{Serif}{\char148}}
>
>These ligature macros are working: \ae, \AE, \oe, \OE.
>
>Any ideas?
this sounds strange, since lig building is done deep down into tex, and if
\showligatures works, then i would expect other usage to work as well
how does the smallest non working example code looks like?
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-17 19:08 UTC|newest]
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2002-02-16 21:17 Bill McClain
2002-02-17 19:08 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2002-02-20 12:41 ` Bill McClain
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