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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ⅛ not displayed
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:04:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8960099E-065F-4B09-969D-4AE3BDA87C8E@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsB_0Lz0h-at16pnRbH70O0SHoZx5pMXJZLu6xT+MW_ULQ@mail.gmail.com>


Am 30.10.2011 um 09:49 schrieb luigi scarso:

> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
> <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Am 29.10.2011 um 18:27 schrieb Paul Menzel:
>> 
>>> Dear ConTeXt folks,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> some fractions (input using Compose) are not displayed in the resulting
>>> PDF files.
>>> 
>>>        \starttext
>>>        ⅛ ist $\frac18$.
>>> 
>>>        ½, ⅓, ¼, ⅕, ⅙, ⅛
>>>        \stoptext
>>> 
>>> I guess this is a font problem, but maybe fall backs could be added?
>> 
>> You can’t expect from a font to have glyphs for each unicode symbol
>> and automatic fallbacks are problematic because the fallback font should
>> match with the regular font.
> For latin modern we can use Symbola
> http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

They don’t match that well, even when you scale Symbola to fit Latin Modern
you can see a difference (simplefonts use only the 10pt size of LM).

\usemodule[simplefonts]

\setmainfontfallback[Symbola][range=numberforms]
\setmainfont[Latin Modern Roman]

\starttext
½ ⅓ ¼ ¾ ⅕ ⅙ ⅛ ↉
\stoptext

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-30 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-29 16:27 Paul Menzel
2011-10-29 21:12 ` ⅛ not displayed in Latin Modern Paul Menzel
2011-10-29 21:22   ` Paul Menzel
2011-10-30  8:44 ` ⅛ not displayed Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-30  8:49   ` luigi scarso
2011-10-30 10:04     ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2011-10-30 16:52   ` Hans Hagen

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