gtamac symbols and mkiv
I have been using symbols (such as "Fleuron") from the gtamacfonts in an annual publication. Trying to change to mkiv: what exactly should I do to install them? So far, my attempts were not successful. (Attempts meaning: copying the tt fonts and the type- and other files that seem to have anything to do with it into my minimal installation, reloading the fonts and remaking the formats). Thanks, Jörg
On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Jörg Hagmann wrote:
I have been using symbols (such as "Fleuron") from the gtamacfonts in an annual publication. Trying to change to mkiv: what exactly should I do to install them? So far, my attempts were not successful. (Attempts meaning: copying the tt fonts and the type- and other files that seem to have anything to do with it into my minimal installation, reloading the fonts and remaking the formats).
Thanks, Jörg
The answer is short and will be disappointing: gtamacfonts was developed for mkii and will not work with mkiv. If you want just a couple of symbols, it should be easy to write a few macros to get them, but the motivation behind gtamacfonts was just to make these fonts available for TeX, and with mkiv, they are available. ALl best Thomas
Thanks -- I did expect something of the kind. I need just "Fleuron" and "Crown"; could you give me a hint as to where I should look for an example -- a macro doing the same thing, something that could get me going? Cheers, Jörg Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Jörg Hagmann wrote:
I have been using symbols (such as "Fleuron") from the gtamacfonts in an annual publication. Trying to change to mkiv: what exactly should I do to install them? So far, my attempts were not successful. (Attempts meaning: copying the tt fonts and the type- and other files that seem to have anything to do with it into my minimal installation, reloading the fonts and remaking the formats).
Thanks, Jörg
The answer is short and will be disappointing: gtamacfonts was developed for mkii and will not work with mkiv. If you want just a couple of symbols, it should be easy to write a few macros to get them, but the motivation behind gtamacfonts was just to make these fonts available for TeX, and with mkiv, they are available.
On Nov 11, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Jörg Hagmann wrote:
Thanks -- I did expect something of the kind. I need just "Fleuron" and "Crown"; could you give me a hint as to where I should look for an example -- a macro doing the same thing, something that could get me going?
Cheers, Jörg
The easies way would be: \define\Fleuron% {\getglyph{name:hoeflertextornaments}{\char61522}} If you want to know the numbers of the different ornaments: open the file hoeflertextornaments.tma, which will be in your luatex-cache, under fonts/otf. There's a section "unicodes" where you'll find all the names and the corrresponding values. (There's probably a more elegant way of achieving this, but that's what I used.) If you want more than just a few glyphs, you can also define a symbolset from Hoefler Ornaments, see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Symbols Thomas
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
The easies way would be:
\define\Fleuron% {\getglyph{name:hoeflertextornaments}{\char61522}}
If you want to know the numbers of the different ornaments: open the file hoeflertextornaments.tma, which will be in your luatex-cache, under fonts/otf. There's a section "unicodes" where you'll find all the names and the corrresponding values. (There's probably a more elegant way of achieving this, but that's what I used.)
If you want more than just a few glyphs, you can also define a symbolset from Hoefler Ornaments, see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Symbols
Thank you, Thomas Jörg
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