Re: Dotted characters

["Lukáš Procházka" <LPr@pontex.cz>]

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Hello again,

the dotted font works perfectly.

I'm using Lua to generate sheets from a database which contains word-picture-picture2 records (see attached single page sample; I had to convert the image to .jpg to reduce file size).

One more question - is there a ConTeXt/Lua function which would assign a non-diacritical-character to that with diacritics, like:

Á => A
Š => S
Ý => Y etc.?

I'm asking as the "Trace Font for Kids" doesn't contain characters with diacritics...

Simple Lua table would do the job, like

----
remove_dia_czech =
{ ["é"] = "e",
   ["š"] = "s",
   ...
}
----

But string pattern in Lua with cp1250/UTF-8 might not be so easy as Lua pattern "." matches single char (or - better - one byte - I guess), so with UTF-8, chars with diacritics need more bytes; so the code

----
str = ("Řetězec with diacritics"):gsub(".", remove_dia_czech)
----

probably won't work.

And Ctx Lua could have a mechanism already...

Best regards,

Lukas

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:43:12 +0200, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:

> there is no easy way to convert that into a dotted line that matches the ‘black parts’ of the glyph shape. Perhaps you could use two regular fonts: one sans-serif and one with dotted lines? There are some free fonts with dotted lines that can be found on the web, e.g. here: http://www.fontspace.com/category/dotted-line
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco


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