From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6908 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: new font installation and missing ligatures Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 20:08:37 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020217200700.03fade30@server-1> References: <3C6ECC6D.1A586DC8@salamander.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397412 14909 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:23:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:23:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Bill McClain In-Reply-To: <3C6ECC6D.1A586DC8@salamander.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6908 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6908 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-pod.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------