From: Thomas Fehige <thomas@fehige.de>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: glyph substitution
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:44:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <572310D4.6030208@fehige.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cad4caa-38f3-a38a-9b09-1492dd6b2129@wxs.nl>
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Am 27.04.2016 um 17:10 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> indeed they are lots of small examples (taken from the list or
> experiments) but they show what can be done
>
> if they crash (no sure what you mean there) it's most likely due to
> fonts you don't have on your machine
Yes, many of the blank pages or obscure (to me) error messages seem to
be font-related. I'll have to see to that.
> a lot has been published in articles in user group journals or for
> meetings, there is a font manual that you can buy for nominal costs,
> there are some manuals on the website and an extended version of the
> more technical one that hardly anyone needs will end up in the
> distribution some day soon, there are examples on stack exchange, in
> the mail archive an don the wiki ... a lot of this depends on
> voluntary work so you can hardly complain about it .. anyone is free
> to provide more documentation and share experiences
Yes, I know, I'm sorry I let my exasperation run free. When I started
out with LaTeX /and/ typesetting more than two decades ago, I had one
basic book on LaTeX. Over the years my knowledge of LaTeX, typography,
layout design and typesetting grew side by side, if somewhat organically
and unsystematic. Nowadays there's about a metre and a half of bookshelf
occupied by books on LaTeX, TeX and Typography.
As I make books myself, I'm obviously not averse to buying them. I guess
the ConTeXt books on fonts and layout will do me good.
> btw, if you want to roll out your own features as in extensions-001
> then you also need to know what the font provides (or lacks) .. open
> type fonts can be pretty complex and there is no consistency in how
> certain features are implemented
Yes, I learned that already. Will these home-made features only work on
open type fonts?
Cheers -- Thomas
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-19 7:10 uppercase, small caps, numerals and German capital sharp s Thomas Fehige
2016-04-19 12:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-04-19 12:46 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-20 14:03 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-20 14:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-04-20 21:25 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-20 21:27 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-22 11:35 ` glyph substitution Thomas Fehige
2016-04-22 20:28 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-25 9:53 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-25 12:48 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-25 15:49 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-25 18:12 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-25 20:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-04-26 8:42 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-27 14:27 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-27 15:10 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-29 7:44 ` Thomas Fehige [this message]
2016-04-29 7:56 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-29 8:38 ` Test Suite Fonts "extensions-001" Thomas Fehige
2016-04-29 9:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-05-03 9:22 ` Setting up TeXworks Thomas Fehige
2016-05-06 8:04 ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-05-06 11:39 ` L.S.-Soc&Gam
2016-05-16 15:46 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-16 15:55 ` Jean-Pierre Delange
2016-05-17 11:16 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-17 12:39 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-17 12:59 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-19 14:09 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-17 13:22 ` Jean-Pierre Delange
2016-05-19 15:16 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-19 16:15 ` Jean-Pierre Delange
2016-05-07 10:49 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-09 11:02 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-15 19:29 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-16 14:34 ` ConTeXt and Scite Thomas Fehige
2016-05-03 9:51 ` Setting up TeXworks Thomas Fehige
2016-05-03 10:21 ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-05-03 13:01 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-25 20:47 ` glyph substitution Wolfgang Schuster
2016-04-26 7:42 ` Thomas Fehige
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