Hi Hans, I simply put the unicode character there and everything works pretty well. I was using only 5 Chinese characters in a document: 中國科學院, which means Chinese Academy of Sciences. Looked up their unicode number: for c in u'中國科學院': print(ord(c)) 20013 22283 31185 23416 38498 and draw every glyph carefully in a metapost file "cas-chars.mp": beginglyph(20013,1000,1000,0); % a lot of fillings and drawingsendglyph; then call them in a test file: \definemetafont[cas-logo][cas-chars.mp] \startTEXpage \definefont[cas][cas@cas-logo] \cas 中國科學院\stopTEXpage If I remove the beginglyph(38498,1000,1000,0) part in the mp file and “\cas 中國科學” will generate the correct output. or if I change beginglyph(38498,1000,1000,0) to beginglyph(32767,1000,1000,0) and “\cas 中國科學\char"7FFF” also gives the right output. I'm looking forward to “some” module :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------ From:Hans Hagen Send Time:2019 Jul. 5 (Fri.) 17:03 To:陈之初 ; mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject:Re: [NTG-context] I (metapost) can't handle numbers bigger than 32767.99998 On 7/5/2019 8:32 AM, Zhichu wrote:

Hi everyone,

I was using metapost to generate some symbols, as in "tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/fonts/mpiv/demo-symbols.tex"

How do you use these symbols in a document? Do you call them up by number somehow? Using some glyph interface doesn't make much sense I think, as the font stuff comes from mf which is 8 bit. So, these character numbers (and simensions) are not really saying much, other than that they're properties of a figure. (In context lmtx there will likely be some module for mp fonts. We can already do a lot but there is some more potential.) Hans

Occasionally, I want to customize a glyph whose charcode is a little large, say the character " 院": ======================================== ~~~IPython In [1]: for c in u'院': print(ord(c)) 38498 ========================================

so I wrote: ======================================== beginglyph(38498,2,4,0) ; % high voltage interim ahlength := 1 ; drawarrow (1,4) -- (0,2) -- (2,3) -- (1,0) withcolor darkred ; endglyph ; ========================================

and I got: ======================================== ! Enormous number has been reduced. l.60 beginzhglyph(38498 ); I can't handle numbers bigger than 32767.99998; so I've changed your constant to that maximum amount. ========================================

So charcode is a 15-bit integer?

Currently, I use `beginglyph(32767,2,4,0) ;` and call it with \char"7FFF. Not an elegant way I think.

Is there a fix? I checked the metapost manual and found that charcode is only used to set the filename to something like %{jobname}.%{charcode} I can't see why there's a limit for charcode.

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