interesting font

interesting font

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Dear all,

quite by coincidence, I discovered a nice font for download. It is  
called GFSDidot and can be downloaded at http://greekfontsociety.org/ 
typefaces.html

I became interested because it has a full set of polytoniko Greek  
characters, but the Latin typeface (which resembles Palatino) is very  
nice, too; it has (for the Regular variant) a full set of small caps,  
oldstyle figures, and full f-ligatures, so it's almost an expert  
font. The font is free; the readme says:

"You may use these fonts for personal and commercial use. These fonts  
may be freely redistributed, provided that you do not alter them in  
any way and that you credit GFS for this.

These fonts are distributed free and may not be sold or resold for  
any purposes."

The font comes in the usual four variants as an OpenType font.  
However, texfont and the lcdf-tools choked on the bold and bold  
italic with this message:

../include/lcdf/vector.hh:52: failed assertion `i>=0 && i<_n'

After converting them to pfb/afm (via cfftot1), installation was  
easy. If anyone (Adam??) can figure out what this message means, I'd  
be grateful nevertheless.

Have a look and enjoy!

Best

Thomas

Re: interesting font

[Adam Lindsay]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> The font comes in the usual four variants as an OpenType font.  However, 
> texfont and the lcdf-tools choked on the bold and bold  italic with this 
> message:
> 
> ../include/lcdf/vector.hh:52: failed assertion `i>=0 && i<_n'
> 
> After converting them to pfb/afm (via cfftot1), installation was  easy. 
> If anyone (Adam??) can figure out what this message means, I'd  be 
> grateful nevertheless.

I've seen it before, but I can't quite remember the context or solution. 
My gut reaction is to say "update LCDFtools and try again". Eddie 
Kohler, the author, would probably want to be pointed to the font and 
use-case in case it's a bug on his end. It may well be faults in the 
font, though.

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Re: interesting font

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Yes, sometimes life can be as simple as that: the latest version of  
lcdf-tools can handle the fonts without a problem. [Aside: according  
to Gerben's installer, this version is version 2.36, dated  
2005/12/29, this is very advanced AFAICT.] Thanks, Adam, I feel a bit  
stupid now.

I like the font. Maybe we should have a repository somewhere on  
Contextgarden where to put zips of metrics + map + encodings +  
typescripts: Patrick?

Best

Thomas

On Dec 16, 2005, at 2:59 AM, Adam Lindsay wrote:

> I've seen it before, but I can't quite remember the context or  
> solution. My gut reaction is to say "update LCDFtools and try  
> again". Eddie Kohler, the author, would probably want to be pointed  
> to the font and use-case in case it's a bug on his end. It may well  
> be faults in the font, though.
>

Re: interesting font

[Patrick Gundlach]

[...]

> I like the font. Maybe we should have a repository somewhere on
> Contextgarden where to put zips of metrics + map + encodings +
> typescripts: Patrick?

It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in
some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this
solution, would you?

So what do you imagine/propose?

Patrick
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Re: Re: interesting font

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

> It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in
> some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this
> solution, would you?

No, that's exactly what I had in mind. I just think some central  
place for this stuff would be good. I'll send you a zip.

Best

Thomas

Re: Re: interesting font

[Taco Hoekwater]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> 
> On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> 
>> It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in
>> some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this
>> solution, would you?
> 
> 
> No, that's exactly what I had in mind. I just think some central  place 
> for this stuff would be good. I'll send you a zip.

Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them
on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation
easier for other users

Taco

Re: Re: interesting font

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them
> on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation
> easier for other users
>
Not quite sure how I'd do that -- the stuff has to go into different  
directories in order to be found. Or am I on the wrong track?

Thomas

Re: Re: interesting font

[Taco Hoekwater]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
>> Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them
>> on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation
>> easier for other users
>>
> Not quite sure how I'd do that -- the stuff has to go into different  
> directories in order to be found. Or am I on the wrong track?

Yes, but that is true for some modules as well. Just create
a zip that has the whole needed subtree below texmf, like so:

(aquamints as example)

   doc/context/third/aquamints/readme
   doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.tex
   doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.pdf

   tex/context/third/aquamints/t-symb-aquamints

   fonts/map/galapag.map
   fonts/tfm/galapag/aquamin.tfm
   fonts/type1/galapag/AquaMin_.pfb

Do I make sense?

Taco

Re: Re: interesting font

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Oh OK, that's what I was thinking about anyway. And in this case, we  
can even redistribute the fonts themselves, so the zip would contain  
everything needed, users have just to unzip it and can go...

Best

Thomas
On Dec 17, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Yes, but that is true for some modules as well. Just create
> a zip that has the whole needed subtree below texmf,

Re: Re: interesting font

[Taco Hoekwater]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Oh OK, that's what I was thinking about anyway. And in this case, we  
> can even redistribute the fonts themselves, so the zip would contain  
> everything needed, users have just to unzip it and can go...

Precisely. And if we have a lot of those font things, I'm sure we can
convince Patrick to create a subdivision for fonts :-)

Taco

Re: interesting font

[Patrick Gundlach]

> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>> Oh OK, that's what I was thinking about anyway. And in this case, we
>> can even redistribute the fonts themselves, so the zip would contain
>> everything needed, users have just to unzip it and can go...

Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now
available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot

> Precisely. And if we have a lot of those font things, I'm sure we can
> convince Patrick to create a subdivision for fonts :-)

My todo-list is a stack rather than a queue. So don't ask in advance
:)

Patrick
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Re: Re: interesting font

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Thomas was too quick and made a mistake...

Patrick has kindly uploaded a corrected version. If anyone has  
downloaded the first version, please discard the file type- 
gfsdidot.tex and get the new version.

Thanks!

Thomas

On Dec 17, 2005, at 6:11 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

> Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now
> available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot

Re: Re: interesting font

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2005-12-17 um 18:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
> Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now
> available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot

Great!
As you know there are some font packages at my site:
http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4

And I will make much more, but I'm running out of space (Apostrophe  
Lab's Republika "font clan" has 300 faces, the ZIP is > 50 MB).
So I'd like to put that stuff at modules.contextgarden (or  
fonts.contextgarden as you like).

Can I upload myself? Otherwise: Would you fetch it from my site? And  
how to deal with updates?


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Re: Re: interesting font

[Hans Hagen]

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Am 2005-12-17 um 18:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
>
>> Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now
>> available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot
>
>
> Great!
> As you know there are some font packages at my site:
> http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4
>
> And I will make much more, but I'm running out of space (Apostrophe  
> Lab's Republika "font clan" has 300 faces, the ZIP is > 50 MB).
> So I'd like to put that stuff at modules.contextgarden (or  
> fonts.contextgarden as you like).
>
> Can I upload myself? Otherwise: Would you fetch it from my site? And  
> how to deal with updates?

given space ... why not make a project at fabrice's gforce server ... 
maybe as part of the font project (we will collect things there anyway); 
patrick is the technical lead there -)

Hans

Re: interesting font

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello Henning,

> Am 2005-12-17 um 18:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
>> Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now
>> available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot

> Great!
> As you know there are some font packages at my site:
> http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4

nice. I have still a few gigabytes diskspace left, so there is no
problem to put the on contextgarden.net. Let's discuss that off list,
but I might be unavailable during christmas. If anybody else has some
font packages, don't hesitate to ask me to put them in the garden.

Patrick
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Re: Re: interesting font

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>
>> On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>
>>> Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them
>>> on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation
>>> easier for other users
>>>
>> Not quite sure how I'd do that -- the stuff has to go into different  
>> directories in order to be found. Or am I on the wrong track?
>
>
> Yes, but that is true for some modules as well. Just create
> a zip that has the whole needed subtree below texmf, like so:
>
> (aquamints as example)
>
>   doc/context/third/aquamints/readme
>   doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.tex
>   doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.pdf
>
>   tex/context/third/aquamints/t-symb-aquamints
>
>   fonts/map/galapag.map
>   fonts/tfm/galapag/aquamin.tfm
>   fonts/type1/galapag/AquaMin_.pfb
>
> Do I make sense?

sounds ok to me, if needed (when we get many such zips) we can always 
split the wiki page (zips can or grouped anyway)

Hans