From: Sietse Brouwer <sbbrouwer@gmail.com>
To: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
Subject: Re: Faux font
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:29:31 +0200 [thread overview]
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Sietse wrote:
>> NB: I also have some recollection of dummy text composed of hollow
>> rectangles rather than solid black ones, but like you I cannot
>> remember where I saw that. Maybe the document also showed kerns, in
>> pretty colors? I can't remember.
Wolfgang wrote:
> One of these examples can be found in the TeXbook on page 65.
Found it; screenshot attached. And now I remember where I saw the
hollow rectangles --- it wasn't in a document, but on the GUST
website.
http://www.gust.org.pl/
@John: we have now found
* \fakewords: uniform black slabs with a thin line underneath to
suggest descenders
* Code to convert letters to filled rectangles
* An example of letters-to-outlined-rectangles in the TeXbook
* Outlined rectangles on the GUST homepage.
Was any of these the fake text you were remembering, or do you think
there is still something else? This seems a nice occasion to complete
the wiki's [[Dummy text]] article. (Which also mentions the ipsum
module for lorem ipsum text, by the way.)
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Dummy_text
Cheers,
Sietse
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-22 14:13 john Culleton
2013-05-22 15:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-05-22 17:17 ` Sietse Brouwer
2013-05-22 17:28 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-05-23 10:29 ` Sietse Brouwer [this message]
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