Dear all, quite by coincidence, I discovered a nice font for download. It is called GFSDidot and can be downloaded at http://greekfontsociety.org/ typefaces.html I became interested because it has a full set of polytoniko Greek characters, but the Latin typeface (which resembles Palatino) is very nice, too; it has (for the Regular variant) a full set of small caps, oldstyle figures, and full f-ligatures, so it's almost an expert font. The font is free; the readme says: "You may use these fonts for personal and commercial use. These fonts may be freely redistributed, provided that you do not alter them in any way and that you credit GFS for this. These fonts are distributed free and may not be sold or resold for any purposes." The font comes in the usual four variants as an OpenType font. However, texfont and the lcdf-tools choked on the bold and bold italic with this message: ../include/lcdf/vector.hh:52: failed assertion `i>=0 && i<_n' After converting them to pfb/afm (via cfftot1), installation was easy. If anyone (Adam??) can figure out what this message means, I'd be grateful nevertheless. Have a look and enjoy! Best Thomas
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
The font comes in the usual four variants as an OpenType font. However, texfont and the lcdf-tools choked on the bold and bold italic with this message:
../include/lcdf/vector.hh:52: failed assertion `i>=0 && i<_n'
After converting them to pfb/afm (via cfftot1), installation was easy. If anyone (Adam??) can figure out what this message means, I'd be grateful nevertheless.
I've seen it before, but I can't quite remember the context or solution. My gut reaction is to say "update LCDFtools and try again". Eddie Kohler, the author, would probably want to be pointed to the font and use-case in case it's a bug on his end. It may well be faults in the font, though. adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Yes, sometimes life can be as simple as that: the latest version of lcdf-tools can handle the fonts without a problem. [Aside: according to Gerben's installer, this version is version 2.36, dated 2005/12/29, this is very advanced AFAICT.] Thanks, Adam, I feel a bit stupid now. I like the font. Maybe we should have a repository somewhere on Contextgarden where to put zips of metrics + map + encodings + typescripts: Patrick? Best Thomas On Dec 16, 2005, at 2:59 AM, Adam Lindsay wrote:
I've seen it before, but I can't quite remember the context or solution. My gut reaction is to say "update LCDFtools and try again". Eddie Kohler, the author, would probably want to be pointed to the font and use-case in case it's a bug on his end. It may well be faults in the font, though.
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I like the font. Maybe we should have a repository somewhere on Contextgarden where to put zips of metrics + map + encodings + typescripts: Patrick?
It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this solution, would you? So what do you imagine/propose? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net
On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this solution, would you?
No, that's exactly what I had in mind. I just think some central place for this stuff would be good. I'll send you a zip. Best Thomas
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this solution, would you?
No, that's exactly what I had in mind. I just think some central place for this stuff would be good. I'll send you a zip.
Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation easier for other users Taco
On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation easier for other users
Not quite sure how I'd do that -- the stuff has to go into different directories in order to be found. Or am I on the wrong track? Thomas
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation easier for other users
Not quite sure how I'd do that -- the stuff has to go into different directories in order to be found. Or am I on the wrong track?
Yes, but that is true for some modules as well. Just create a zip that has the whole needed subtree below texmf, like so: (aquamints as example) doc/context/third/aquamints/readme doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.tex doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.pdf tex/context/third/aquamints/t-symb-aquamints fonts/map/galapag.map fonts/tfm/galapag/aquamin.tfm fonts/type1/galapag/AquaMin_.pfb Do I make sense? Taco
Oh OK, that's what I was thinking about anyway. And in this case, we can even redistribute the fonts themselves, so the zip would contain everything needed, users have just to unzip it and can go... Best Thomas On Dec 17, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Yes, but that is true for some modules as well. Just create a zip that has the whole needed subtree below texmf,
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Oh OK, that's what I was thinking about anyway. And in this case, we can even redistribute the fonts themselves, so the zip would contain everything needed, users have just to unzip it and can go...
Precisely. And if we have a lot of those font things, I'm sure we can convince Patrick to create a subdivision for fonts :-) Taco
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Oh OK, that's what I was thinking about anyway. And in this case, we can even redistribute the fonts themselves, so the zip would contain everything needed, users have just to unzip it and can go...
Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot
Precisely. And if we have a lot of those font things, I'm sure we can convince Patrick to create a subdivision for fonts :-)
My todo-list is a stack rather than a queue. So don't ask in advance :) Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net
Thomas was too quick and made a mistake... Patrick has kindly uploaded a corrected version. If anyone has downloaded the first version, please discard the file type- gfsdidot.tex and get the new version. Thanks! Thomas On Dec 17, 2005, at 6:11 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot
Am 2005-12-17 um 18:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot
Great! As you know there are some font packages at my site: http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4 And I will make much more, but I'm running out of space (Apostrophe Lab's Republika "font clan" has 300 faces, the ZIP is > 50 MB). So I'd like to put that stuff at modules.contextgarden (or fonts.contextgarden as you like). Can I upload myself? Otherwise: Would you fetch it from my site? And how to deal with updates? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 2005-12-17 um 18:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot
Great! As you know there are some font packages at my site: http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4
And I will make much more, but I'm running out of space (Apostrophe Lab's Republika "font clan" has 300 faces, the ZIP is > 50 MB). So I'd like to put that stuff at modules.contextgarden (or fonts.contextgarden as you like).
Can I upload myself? Otherwise: Would you fetch it from my site? And how to deal with updates?
given space ... why not make a project at fabrice's gforce server ... maybe as part of the font project (we will collect things there anyway); patrick is the technical lead there -) Hans
Hello Henning,
Am 2005-12-17 um 18:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot
Great! As you know there are some font packages at my site: http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4
nice. I have still a few gigabytes diskspace left, so there is no problem to put the on contextgarden.net. Let's discuss that off list, but I might be unavailable during christmas. If anybody else has some font packages, don't hesitate to ask me to put them in the garden. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation easier for other users
Not quite sure how I'd do that -- the stuff has to go into different directories in order to be found. Or am I on the wrong track?
Yes, but that is true for some modules as well. Just create a zip that has the whole needed subtree below texmf, like so:
(aquamints as example)
doc/context/third/aquamints/readme doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.tex doc/context/third/aquamints/aquamints.pdf
tex/context/third/aquamints/t-symb-aquamints
fonts/map/galapag.map fonts/tfm/galapag/aquamin.tfm fonts/type1/galapag/AquaMin_.pfb
Do I make sense?
sounds ok to me, if needed (when we get many such zips) we can always split the wiki page (zips can or grouped anyway) Hans
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