On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:49:20AM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Ahoi!
One decorative font that I use contains some additional (swashed etc.) characters. At the moment I access them like this:
\def\DelitschC#1{\getglyph{\defaultencoding-raw-delitschantiqua} {\char#1}} \definetextmodediscretionary A {\DelitschC{197}}
So I get the alternative A as |A|, and that's enough for me. But in this way |A| always takes this character from the same font.
How could I solve this more generally, two cases: 1. if several fonts use the same "expert" encoding 2. if I change the font, I'd like to get a simple A instead of |A|
At the moment I need (2.), because I'd like to use something like \chapter{|A|nfang}; that's ok with my definition of chapter style=\hw (Delitsch font being defined as handwriting), but not in the ToC (rm font).
Further (don't know how different), how could I define "take this special character always at the end/beginning of a word" or the like, e.g. how could I enable the different 's' of gothic fonts?
Can't you define this behavior with ligatures?
Another one: How can I define additional ligatures, e.g. if my font provides a "Qu" or some other unusual ligature?
You can add ligature specifications to an enc file, see e.g. cork.enc. For afm2pl, you can also specify ligatures in a separate lig file. But I don't know how to use such custom enc or lig files in the context of the texfont utility. -- Siep Kroonenberg