a problem with \defineprotrudefactor

Bill McClain

15 Jul 2004 15 Jul '04

1:22 p.m.

After a long lull, I have installed a recent Context (ver: 2004.6.30) and find that my typescripts that do margin kerning are having trouble. Invoking a typescript that uses \defineprotrudefactor will cause the job to stop; I don't see any error messages. When the problem line is commented out the job completes. I've attached a minimal example. -Bill -- Sattre Press Curiosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/ by Garrett Serviss info@sattre-press.com http://sattre-press.com/csky.html

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Hans Hagen

15 Jul 15 Jul

2:59 p.m.

Bill McClain wrote:

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After a long lull, I have installed a recent Context (ver: 2004.6.30) and find that my typescripts that do margin kerning are having trouble. Invoking a typescript that uses \defineprotrudefactor will cause the job to stop; I don't see any error messages. When the problem line is commented out the job completes.

i've been messing around with that because thanh is updating his stuff; i need to handle both hz and protruding and more -) I just got a working pdftex from him so i can now test further Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Bill McClain

7:09 p.m.

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:59:29 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

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i've been messing around with that because thanh is updating his stuff; i need to handle both hz and protruding and more -)

I must ask: would this mean adding Context support for the font expansion mentioned in his thesis? I've wanted to experiment with that but as far as I can tell it has previously required too much (for me) font manipulation outside of tex. -Bill -- Sattre Press Curiosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/ by Garrett Serviss info@sattre-press.com http://sattre-press.com/csky.html

Vit Zyka

16 Jul 16 Jul

7:13 a.m.

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i've been messing around with that because thanh is updating his stuff; i need to handle both hz and protruding and more -)

I must ask: would this mean adding Context support for the font expansion mentioned in his thesis? I've wanted to experiment with that but as far as I can tell it has previously required too much (for me) font manipulation outside of tex.

-Bill

It is true that generating extended font metrics (e.g. cmr10+5.tfm) was a bit deterrent thing for pdfTeX users. It was the reason that Thanh enabled (some months ago) use hz WITHOUT a need of generating extended metrics. But there was some problems with this pdftex version so it coused some delay. Now I believe it will be reflected in ConTeXt support. (I do not know what Hans thinks by "and more" but I reckon he means some code clean up). After that we will need: 1) new ConTeXt 2) new pdftex binary Vit Zyka

Hans Hagen Outside

9:14 a.m.

Vit Zyka wrote:

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After that we will need: 1) new ConTeXt 2) new pdftex binary

indeed, but just wait for a few weeks (there will be a new pdftex release soon) concerning the more: think of combining hz and protruding, turning things on and off, etc Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Hans Hagen Outside

9:12 a.m.

Bill McClain wrote:

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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:59:29 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

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i've been messing around with that because thanh is updating his stuff; i need to handle both hz and protruding and more -)

I must ask: would this mean adding Context support for the font expansion mentioned in his thesis? I've wanted to experiment with that but as far as I can tell it has previously required too much (for me) font manipulation outside of tex.

the next release of pdftex will do things automatically, so you don't need to define all those special tfm files any more; context will provide a mechanism for controling things (works ok as far as i can test) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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