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font-age vs. font-agl
by Philipp Gesang 10 May '13

10 May '13

Hi all, the glyph list is a bit of a conundrum. Context (font-enc.lua) will build its glyph list from font-agl.lua and char-def.lua. Luatex-Fonts reads a file named font-age.lua, which is, however, some 500 character definitions short of the canonical Glyph List from Adobe’s resources [1]. On the other hand, font-age contains these definitions table={ ["SF10000"]=9484, ["SF20000"]=9492, ["SF30000"]=9488, ["SF40000"]=9496, ["SF50000"]=9532, ["SF60000"]=9516, ["SF70000"]=9524, ["SF80000"]=9500, ["SF90000"]=9508, ["afii208"]=8213, } which Adobe denotes padded as SF010000;250C SF020000;2514 SF030000;2510 SF040000;2518 SF050000;253C SF060000;252C SF070000;2534 SF080000;251C SF090000;2524 afii00208;2015 I’m not sure what to make of these differences and how they came to pass except for some older posts in the list archive [2]. So I’m asking for practical reasons: Are the differences of any significance? Can I use either list or should I stick with font-age? Thanks for any advice Philipp [1] http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/opentype/glyphlist.txt [2] http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/031575.html http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/029067.html

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Set layout for the first page of Chapters
by Tim Li 09 May '13

09 May '13

Hi, when designing some documents, I hope I can set a global layout and another layout for the first page of all chapters. I have defined two layouts as follows: \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided, location=] % global layout for the whole document \setuplayout [backspace=2.5cm, width=16.5cm, topspace=2cm, height=25.2cm, header=\lineheight, headerdistance=\lineheight, footer=0cm] % layout for the first page of Chapters \definelayout [firstpage] [height=26.2cm, footerdistance=\lineheight, footer=\lineheight] \starttext \chapter{First Chapter} I am in the first page. \page I am in the second page. \stoptext my question is that how I can apply this `firstpage' layout to the first page of the chapter `First Chapter' and switch back to the global layout after the first page of this chapter? Best Regards,Tim

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Obtaining the current font
by Marco Patzer 09 May '13

09 May '13

Hi, in the gnuplot module the following macro is used for the TikZ terminal: \def\calculateGNUPLOTcharsize{% \global\GNUPLOThcharsize=1.05\fontcharwd\font`0% \global\GNUPLOTvcharsize=1.05\fontcharht\font`0% \global\advance\GNUPLOTvcharsize by 1.05\fontchardp\font`g% } What are \font`0 and font`g? AFAIK the backtick converts the character to the character code, which means it yields \font48 and \font103. The goal is to get the current font, right? Why is the current font width and height addressed with `0 and the depth with `g? And when do `0 and `g result in different values? In my tests they were always the same. Marco

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mpgraphics confusion
by Meer, H. van der 09 May '13

09 May '13

I am a bit confused about the metafum graphis. In the manual (2012) I read (screen version after page 203 section 3.3) the following. \startuseMPgraphic-\useMPgraphic "this graphic is calculated each time it is placed". \startreusableMPgraphic-\reuseMPgraphic "for graphics that don't change". \startuniqueMPgraphic-\uniqueMPgraphic "this graphic is calculated for each distinctive case". I fail to see in what respect startuseMPgraphic en startuniqueMPgraphic do differ? Can someone please explain? Hans van der Meer

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missing chars in cid-keyed font table
by Dohyun Kim 09 May '13

09 May '13

Hi, With AdobeMyungjoStd-Medium.otf, I cannot typeset some chinese characters. Here is a simple tex source: \starttext \definedfont[name:adobemyungjostdmedium] 黃金빛 \stoptext U+9EC3 黃 and U+91D1 金 are missing in the pdf. Incidentally, during font cache I get a bunch of warning messages as follows: otf loading > weird, unicode U+09EC3 points to U+02FC8 with index 0x01EF7 Regards, -- Dohyun Kim Seoul, Republic of Korea

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font
by "H. Özoguz" 09 May '13

09 May '13

> The font is fine with other > OpenType engines as well, e.g. HarfBuzz, so it is probably a ConTeXt > issue. Yes, the font is fine with OpenOffice, too. It would be really great, if this could be fixed in context, so one could typeset quran (and other traditional arabic) professionally. Would be very valuable! Huseyin

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font
by "H. Özoguz" 09 May '13

09 May '13

> seems like an issue with liga ... i'm not sure if that's a context problem Hmm, see in the attachment the output of MS-Word, with activated ligatures. So it has to do anything with ConText, or not? Or maybe this font uses in some way properties of Word in handling fonts? Huseyin

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LuaJitTeX, \texenginename, and \texengineversion
by Kip Warner 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hey Luigi, I find the \texenginename and \texengineversion useful for retrieving the backend name and version. They work fine when using the vanilla LuaTeX backend. However, when using LuaJitTeX, the aforementioned macros still seem to retrieve LuaTeX specific information and not LuaJitTeX - unless I'm doing something wrong. I was careful to ensure I passed --engine=luajittex to context as well. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font
by "H. Özoguz" 08 May '13

08 May '13

> Rename the file to have a .ttf extension; it is and OpenType font with > TrueType outlines and those usually have .ttf extension (though the > spec says they can have .otf extension, ConTeXt does not handle this > right now). > > Regards, > Khaled Thanks Khaled, now it works, at least to some degree. I have still problems, which I dont have with MS Word, see this example: \definefont[amiri][file:UthmanTN1Ver10.ttf*arabic at 17 pt] \define[1]\Arab{\setupalign[r2l]\amiri#1} \starttext \Arab{ نَسْتَعِينُ وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ } \stoptext The vocalisations are set wrong, see attachment. Specially with a final "nuun" there are problems. It is not a problem of the font, because in Word they are set correctly. Does this come from the extensions ConTeXt do not support, or is there an easy way to fix? Or asked more generally, if fixing is not possible: Do you know any font, which can correct handled by context, and is capable of typesetting quran? Thanks. Huseyin

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Installing an arabic font
by "H. Özoguz" 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hoping to annoy not everybody here with my arabic-font-questions. I have found I nice free arabic ttf-font, you can download it here: http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/UthmanTN1-Ver10…. One of its types is: "kfgqpcuthmantahanaskhregular" If I type in the cmd C:\Users\Hussein>mtxrun --script font --list --all --pattern=*kf* I get (together with some other lines/fonts): kfgqpcuthmantahanaskhregular kfgqpcuthmantahanaskh c:/windows/fonts/UthmanTN1 Ver10.otf So everything should be ok. But now the following failes: \definefont[amiri][name:kfgqpcuthmantahanaskhregular*arabic at 17 pt] \define[1]\Arab{\setupalign[r2l]\amiri#1} \starttext \Arab{ بِسْمِ ‏للهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ } \stoptext It compiles, but the output is destroyed, the letters have distances between them. See attached pdf. (In other programms, e.g. MS Word that does not happen, and the font is set correctly.) Apart from this mistake, the font is perfect set by context, even the "Allah" and its "Kassra" has a nice distance (see the other thread). Indeed, if this distace-between-letters problem could be solved, I am happy with arabic in context, this font would be enough, and all other threads of mine could be closed (as far as I am concerned :)) Thanks for your help! Huseyin

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