* Ancient Typewriter Simulation @ 2018-02-15 15:42 Henning Hraban Ramm 2018-02-15 20:08 ` Rik Kabel 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2018-02-15 15:42 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Ancient Typewriter Simulation 2018-02-15 15:42 Ancient Typewriter Simulation Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2018-02-15 20:08 ` Rik Kabel 2018-02-16 7:59 ` Henning Hraban Ramm 2018-02-16 12:40 ` Hans Hagen 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Rik Kabel @ 2018-02-15 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context 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 > --- > http://www.fiee.net > http://wiki.contextgarden.net > GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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. -- Rik ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Ancient Typewriter Simulation 2018-02-15 20:08 ` Rik Kabel @ 2018-02-16 7:59 ` Henning Hraban Ramm 2018-02-16 12:40 ` Hans Hagen 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2018-02-16 7:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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). Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Ancient Typewriter Simulation 2018-02-15 20:08 ` Rik Kabel 2018-02-16 7:59 ` Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2018-02-16 12:40 ` Hans Hagen 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2018-02-16 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context 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 >> --- >> http://www.fiee.net >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net >> GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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