Ancient Typewriter Simulation

Ancient Typewriter Simulation

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Ahoi,
I was just pointed to this LaTeX package:
https://github.com/davidcarlisle/dpctex/tree/master/typewriter

Origin/reasoning:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344214/use-latex-to-simulate-old-typewriter-written-texts

I guess it would be fun to have in ConTeXt - might fit ASCII math ;D


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Re: Ancient Typewriter Simulation

[Rik Kabel]

On 2018-02-15 10:42, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Ahoi,
> I was just pointed to this LaTeX package:
> https://github.com/davidcarlisle/dpctex/tree/master/typewriter
>
> Origin/reasoning:
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344214/use-latex-to-simulate-old-typewriter-written-texts
>
> I guess it would be fun to have in ConTeXt - might fit ASCII math ;D
>
>
> Greetlings, Hraban
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While some of us might object to calling this ancient (_we_ aren't 
ancient, we are simply experienced), it does look like it might be fun.

Serendipitously, yesterday a friend pointed me to another retro font 
site: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/. These are 
available in ttf.

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Re: Ancient Typewriter Simulation

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2018-02-15 um 21:08 schrieb Rik Kabel <context@rik.users.panix.com>:

> On 2018-02-15 10:42, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>> Ahoi,
>> I was just pointed to this LaTeX package:
>> https://github.com/davidcarlisle/dpctex/tree/master/typewriter
>> 
>> Origin/reasoning:
>> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344214/use-latex-to-simulate-old-typewriter-written-texts
>> 
>> I guess it would be fun to have in ConTeXt - might fit ASCII math ;D
>> 
> While some of us might object to calling this ancient (_we_ aren't ancient, we are simply experienced), it does look like it might be fun.
> 
> Serendipitously, yesterday a friend pointed me to another retro font site: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/. These are available in ttf.

Of course there are a lot of "experienced" typewriter fonts, a few might even be good ;)

But the fun of the package is the added irregularity (while it still misses the typical super-bold dots).


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Re: Ancient Typewriter Simulation

[Hans Hagen]

On 2/15/2018 9:08 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
> On 2018-02-15 10:42, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>> Ahoi,
>> I was just pointed to this LaTeX package:
>> https://github.com/davidcarlisle/dpctex/tree/master/typewriter
>>
>> Origin/reasoning:
>> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344214/use-latex-to-simulate-old-typewriter-written-texts 

hm, a real font mimmicking it is probably better because the shapes 
themslves need to change (actually this is doable in luatex but i have 
no time for that now ... also, i don't expect this kind of hackery / 
show-off to be used)

>> I guess it would be fun to have in ConTeXt - might fit ASCII math ;D

the last decade quite some examples have been made / posted / published 
that do tricks with fonts ... i bet no one really uses them

>> Greetlings, Hraban
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>>
> While some of us might object to calling this ancient (_we_ aren't 
> ancient, we are simply experienced), it does look like it might be fun.

sure, nice for the ctx meeting (i can just grab and adapt code that is 
already around on my disk .. maybe it's about time for some cleanup of 
font experiments . i remember some nice experiments by hartmut in the 
early days of luatex)

> Serendipitously, yesterday a friend pointed me to another retro font 
> site: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/. These are 
> available in ttf.
i'll add a luatex-fonts-demo-tt to the distribution which can be used 
like this:

\starttext

\raggedright

\definefontfeature[badtypewritera][ttgrayness=.5]
\definefontfeature[badtypewriterb][ttshift=.5]
\definefontfeature[badtypewriterc][ttthickness=2]
\definefontfeature[badtypewriterd][ttgrayness=.5,ttshift=.5,ttthickness=2,ttfont={dejavusansmono}]
\definefontfeature[badtypewritere][ttgrayness=.5,ttthickness=2,ttstep=2,ttmax=1.5]

\definefont[MyFontA][file:tt.lua*badtypewritera]
\definefont[MyFontB][file:tt.lua*badtypewriterb]
\definefont[MyFontC][file:tt.lua*badtypewriterc]
\definefont[MyFontD][file:tt.lua*badtypewriterd @ 10pt]
\definefont[MyFontE][file:tt.lua*badtypewritere @ 10pt]

\MyFontA \input tufte \blank {\righttoleft  لَيْسَ لَدَيَّ أَيُّ 
فِكْرَةٍ عَمَّا يَعْنِيهِ هٰذَا.} \page
\MyFontB \input tufte \blank {\righttoleft  لَيْسَ لَدَيَّ أَيُّ 
فِكْرَةٍ عَمَّا يَعْنِيهِ هٰذَا.} \page
\MyFontC \input tufte \blank {\righttoleft  لَيْسَ لَدَيَّ أَيُّ 
فِكْرَةٍ عَمَّا يَعْنِيهِ هٰذَا.} \page
\MyFontD \input tufte \blank {\righttoleft  لَيْسَ لَدَيَّ أَيُّ 
فِكْرَةٍ عَمَّا يَعْنِيهِ هٰذَا.} \page
\MyFontE \input tufte \blank {\righttoleft  لَيْسَ لَدَيَّ أَيُّ 
فِكْرَةٍ عَمَّا يَعْنِيهِ هٰذَا.} \page

\stoptext

fwiw, the current luatex vf interface is stepwise made a bit better as 
mixing pdf code into shapes is kind of tricky wrrt the backend character 
stream flushing (so it's fragile and has limitations) .. i occasionally 
look into it

Hans

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