including dingbats in Metafun

including dingbats in Metafun

[Johannes Hüsing]

Hi all,

apologies if my mail doesn't hit the list directly: My mail address was 
temporarily unavailable which might have caused the mailing list engine
to set me to no-member status.

Here's my problem: I would like to set up a style using some symbols of 
Luc Devroye's Sugaku fonts as graphical elements. When I run the following,
the overlay doesn't contain any of the desired elements.

Here's my test file:

%output=pdf

\startMPinclusions
verbatimtex
\definesymbol[karo]{\getglyph{Kinkimono}{\char017}}
etex
\stopMPinclusions

\starttext
\startuseMPgraphic{rechteck}
fill unitsquare xyscaled (\overlaywidth, \overlayheight) withcolor .7white;
label(btex \symbol[karo] etex, origin);
label(btex \symbol[karo] etex, (0,\overlayheight));
label(btex \symbol[karo] etex, (\overlaywidth, 0));
label(btex \symbol[karo] etex, (\overlaywidth, \overlayheight));
\stopuseMPgraphic

\defineoverlay[Text][{\useMPgraphic{rechteck}}]

\setupbackgrounds
   [text][background=Text]

\input tufte

\stoptext

The temporarily generated PDF file for the background only contains 
the grey rectangle:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 426 596 
%%Creator: MetaPost
%%CreationDate: 2002.04.10:2225
%%Pages: 1
%%EndProlog
%%Page: 1 1
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 425.19193 595.27948
 0.7 setgray
newpath 0 0 moveto
141.72849 0 283.46344 0 425.19193 0 curveto
425.19193 198.42346 425.19193 396.85602 425.19193 595.27948 curveto
283.46344 595.27948 141.72849 595.27948 0 595.27948 curveto
0 396.85602 0 198.42346 0 0 curveto closepath fill
showpage
%%EOF

What gives? The symbol font is available to pdfetex, insertiong the 
symbols in ConTeXt gives the desired result.

Greetings

Johannes
-- 
Johannes Hüsing   There is something fascinating about science. One gets
hannes@ruhrau.de  such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a 
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Re: including dingbats in Metafun

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:05 PM 6/9/2002 +0200, Johannes Hüsing wrote:

>\startMPinclusions
>verbatimtex
>\definesymbol[karo]{\getglyph{Kinkimono}{\char017}}
>etex
>\stopMPinclusions

make that:

\startMPenvironment
\definesymbol ....
\stopMPenvironment

>\starttext
>\startuseMPgraphic{rechteck}
>fill unitsquare xyscaled (\overlaywidth, \overlayheight) withcolor .7white;

latesr version: fill OverlayBox withcolor ...

>label(btex \symbol[karo] etex, origin);
>label(btex \symbol[karo] etex, (0,\overlayheight));
>label(btex \symbol[karo] etex, (\overlaywidth, 0));
>label(btex \symbol[karo] etex, (\overlaywidth, \overlayheight));
>\stopuseMPgraphic

btw, there's also: OverlayWidth and OverlayHeight now, looks better

>\defineoverlay[Text][{\useMPgraphic{rechteck}}]

no real need to use the outer {} here -)

does

\starttext

\definesymbol[...][...]

\symbol[...]

\stoptext

work ok?

Hans
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