Re: Faux font

[Sietse Brouwer <sbbrouwer@gmail.com>]

Hi John,

John Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>> In some Context manuals (can't remember which ones) there is a faux font
>> that just consists of little rectangles of two different sizes. What is
>> the name of that font? Is it included in e.g. TeXLive?

Wolfgang wrote:
> Do you mean \fakeword?

Link to the This Way that introduces \fakeword and friends:
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0007.pdf
(I am personally rather fond of the \simplethesis command. (This
command produces a lot of output, so it may take a bit longer than you
expect --- just like a real thesis.))

Or perhaps you mean the black boxes in section 5 of the reference
manual's typography chapter [1]? Those are made by replacing every
letter with a black rule of equal height, depths, and width. I dug op
the code [2]; relevant bit is below.

[1] http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography.pdf
[2] http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography.tex

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.

Cheers,
Sietse

% Converting every letter into a rectangle.
\def\somecharacter#1%
  {\setbox0=\hbox{#1}%
   \blackrule[width=\wd0,height=\ht0,depth=\dp0]}

\def\someline%
  {\noindent \processtokens\somecharacter\somecharacter\relax\space
     {The height and depth of lines differs.}}

\starttext
\someline
\stoptext
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