font fallback hook (alphabet suspects)
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Hello to everybody! Warning: 50 % of Greek glyphs in MWE, so they might be randomized :) Is there any hook in the font fallback? There are some Greek, Hebrew, etc. words used in the text. While proofreading, the editor would like to check these words separately (glyphs from different alphabets, unusual symbols, ...), so I'd like to typeset the warning (margin note), where these words are located. To avoid usual markup \greek{ὀρφανῖος} it could be useful to typeset a margin note whenever the defined fallback is called. The unfamiliar symbols could be in the main font and no fallback would be called then (one can still define the fallback with the main font as in the MWE, bold used for the illustration), but you might have a better ideas how to point out these suspects. The margin note is ment for searching PDF where one cannot search for color (basic viewer), which could be the other approach (also visible in print). I think, the color could be achieved with finalizers. One should also think of hyphenation and l2r/r2l direction, so in the end the usual approach might be the best way. You might use other approaches, how to deal with suspects of this type. Below the MWE for font fallbacks with distribution fonts. Not critical, just looking for ideas. Thank you, Jano \definefontfallback[Fallback] [file:DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf] [0x0370-0x03FF] [force=yes,rscale=1] \definefontfallback[Fallback] [file:DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf] [0x01F40,0x01FD6] [force=yes,rscale=1] \starttypescriptcollection[DejaVu] \starttypescript[serif] [DejaVu] [name] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [file:DejaVuSerif.ttf] [fallbacks=Fallback] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[DejaVu] \definetypeface[DejaVu][rm][serif] [DejaVu][default] \stoptypescript \stoptypescriptcollection \setupbodyfont[DejaVu] \starttext from ὀρφανῖος, thus \stoptext
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On 1/29/2021 8:29 PM, Jano Kula wrote:
There are some Greek, Hebrew, etc. words used in the text. While proofreading, the editor would like to check these words separately (glyphs from different alphabets, unusual symbols, ...), so I'd like to typeset the warning (margin note), where these words are located. To avoid usual markup \greek{ὀρφανῖος} it could be useful to typeset a margin note whenever the defined fallback is called.
The unfamiliar symbols could be in the main font and no fallback would be called then (one can still define the fallback with the main font as in the MWE, bold used for the illustration), but you might have a better ideas how to point out these suspects.
The margin note is ment for searching PDF where one cannot search for color (basic viewer), which could be the other approach (also visible in print). I think, the color could be achieved with finalizers. One should also think of hyphenation and l2r/r2l direction, so in the end the usual approach might be the best way.
You might use other approaches, how to deal with suspects of this type. Below the MWE for font fallbacks with distribution fonts.
Not critical, just looking for ideas. Already there for ages ... testsuite goodies-002.tex + demo.lfg shows how to color your special characters ... one of the probably many unknown features -)
There's also this: \enabletrackers[fonts.missing=replace] \startTEXpage Jano uses \char 12345. \stopTEXpage and of course you then watch the log ... (at the meeting Ton showed other proofing tricks). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Hello Hans!
Thanks.
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 21:58, Hans Hagen
Not critical, just looking for ideas. Already there for ages ... testsuite goodies-002.tex + demo.lfg shows how to color your special characters ... one of the probably many unknown features -)
I was thinking goodies could be the answer even for the font fallbacks hooks. Unicode blocks are colored and wikified https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Font_Goodies (simplified example) now, which definitely helps. I'm fine with logs and trackers, but the original idea was to search PDF by the editor to make a visual check (made fast by searching), confirming the glyphs are right, not only they do exist in the font. Just wanted to ask if there is any existing machinery which could be used for that: switching font fallback would issue, for example, a margin note command. J.
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