From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19717 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Encoding and mapping glyphs from an expert font Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:17:52 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <426BCEF3@webmail.colostate.edu> <20050410002231.31504@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113095740 1108 80.91.229.2 (10 Apr 2005 01:15:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Apr 10 03:15:34 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKR2o-0004XL-U4 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:15:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6903F127CF; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:18:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32101-08; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:17:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7092A127AA; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:17:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FFA0127AA for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:17:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32133-07 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:17:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8392F127A0 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:17:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j3A1HrS1602084 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:17:53 -0600 Original-Received: from IHAMID (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.166]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j3A1HiH245844 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:17:44 -0600 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20050410002231.31504@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19717 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19717 On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:22:31 +0100, Adam Lindsay =20 wrote: > Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:30:35 -0600: > >> Could you tell me where the default mapping of OldStyle to MathItalic = is >> documented/implemented in the sources? Maybe I could make a similar > mechanism >> for my normal-expert dyad. > > font-ini for os > OldStyle > type-syn for OldStyle > MathItalic in most cases. Thnx; I'll take a look. I want to understand the entire chain from texnansi-os-public-lm.map =3D=3D> texnansi-os-lm.enc =3D=3D> cmmi instead of lmr I think I understand the first two links, just need to track down the las= t=20 one now... > But I would recommend looking at font variants. The "palatino bonus" at > the end of type-syn is a brief example, and the wiki has some stuff abo= ut > Font Variants as well. ok > But wait, where are you coming from? Are your source fonts really Minio= n > .pfbs, or are they from OpenType? With OpenType, you can use some nice > TeXFont stuff to select the features (OSF, SC, alternates) without havi= ng > to draw from two arbitrary encodings. Right now I am using some pfb's. Following your advice here http://semantics-online.org/geek/2003/09/how_to_install_adobe_garamond_fo= r_latex I ordered the Adobe classics pack and should soon have the open type=20 versions as well (except for Poetica:-<). Thnx and good night:-) Idris --=20 Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523