text symbols

text symbols

[Jens-Uwe Morawski]

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Hi,

often PS and TTF fonts include some common symbols like "registered",
"trademark"... Currently i try to build an interface to access them
independent from the current font encoding.

The following test file (using the attached typescripts):
%%%
% output=pdftex interface=en
\enableregime[il1]
\mainlanguage[de]

\usetypescriptfile[cts-at-test]
\usetypescriptfile[cts-textsymbols]

\usetypescript[textsymbols][all,ec,8r]

\definetypeface[BodyFontT][rm][serif][AdobeTimes][default][encoding=ec]
\definetypeface[BodyFontR][rm][serif][AdobeTimes][default][encoding=8r]

\setupbodyfont[BodyFontT,rm,10pt]

\starttext
Das ist das Copyright-Symbol: \symbol[textcopyright].
\stoptext
%%%

gives the error:
kpathsea: Running mktextfm  TextSymbols
/opt/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation T for TextSymbols.
/opt/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /opt/TeXLive/texmf/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input TextSymbols
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.7x)

kpathsea: Running mktexmf  TextSymbols
! I can't find file `TextSymbols'.

Why is there a problem? Why tries \getglyph{TextSymbols}{...} the font
'TextSymbols' directly instead of going to 'TextSymbolsSerif'. The
symbols are defined according to the setup of the Adobe Euro fonts
(symb-eur.tex). Thus it should work.

Jens

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Re: text symbols

[Patrick Gundlach]

Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net> writes:

Hello Jens,

> The following test file (using the attached typescripts):
> %%%
> % output=pdftex interface=en
> \enableregime[il1]
> \mainlanguage[de]
>
> \usetypescriptfile[cts-at-test]
> \usetypescriptfile[cts-textsymbols]

\usetypescript[serif][AdobeTimes][all]

[...]

but this will not suffice, since 

  \definesymbol[textdegree] [{\symbol[\currentencoding-textdegree]}]

will expand the \currentencoding before it can be used. The symbol
will print "default-textdegree". I don't know how to save the cs
\currentencoding.



Patrick