Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-11 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Works as expected now That's great news, but now that's because Hans has fixed the old behaviour in today's (yesterday's) release ;-) Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please a

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Jan 11, 2008 7:15 PM, Arthur Reutenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you mean simple rename to Unicode.ttf, copy into appropriate dir, > > luatools --generate, well , > > this did not work last night. > > This can be caused by a number of things: > > 1. The original font file name was s

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-11 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> (Am I wrong if I said that 'BOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND LEFT HEAVY' is > normative ?) No, you're right, Unicode names are absolutely normative. So normative, actually, that Unicode and ISO guarantee that they will never change, ever (they're among the very few so-called stable properties). But,

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-11 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> wel, we can make a characters.context.descriptions but i'm not sure if > it will really be used, because when one knows this rather verbose > string (has looked it up), one could as well use the (also found) > unicode directly That's what I thought at first, but then I realized it could be

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-11 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 4:29 PM, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Is there another solution other than fontforge ? >>> Sure, just rename the font to Unicode.ttf. And the problem should be >>> fixed now, so try the next beta with the original na

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-11 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> If you mean simple rename to Unicode.ttf, copy into appropriate dir, > luatools --generate, well , > this did not work last night. This can be caused by a number of things: 1. The original font file name was still stored in the cache. 2. You kept Unicode.otf along with Unicode.ttf, and Co

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Jan 11, 2008 4:29 PM, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > >> Is there another solution other than fontforge ? > > > > Sure, just rename the font to Unicode.ttf. And the problem should be > > fixed now, so try the next beta with the original name as well. > > > >

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-11 Thread luigi scarso
On Jan 11, 2008 4:22 PM, Arthur Reutenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there another solution other than fontforge ? > > Sure, just rename the font to Unicode.ttf. And the problem should be > fixed now, so try the next beta with the original name as well. If you mean simple rename to Unico

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> Is there another solution other than fontforge ? > > Sure, just rename the font to Unicode.ttf. And the problem should be > fixed now, so try the next beta with the original name as well. > >> I mean using by using characters.data in char-def.lua: >> >> [0x25C9] =

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-11 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Is there another solution other than fontforge ? Sure, just rename the font to Unicode.ttf. And the problem should be fixed now, so try the next beta with the original name as well. > I mean using by using characters.data in char-def.lua: > > [0x25C9] = { unicodeslot=0x25C9, category='so'

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-10 Thread luigi scarso
On Jan 11, 2008 5:03 AM, Arthur Reutenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This seems to be a slight misfeature in Mark IV: I take that when > opening a font file with an .otf extension, it assumes it is an OpenType > font with PostScript outlines (cubic splines); when the file has a .ttf > extensio

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-10 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
This seems to be a slight misfeature in Mark IV: I take that when opening a font file with an .otf extension, it assumes it is an OpenType font with PostScript outlines (cubic splines); when the file has a .ttf extension, it supposes there are TrueType outlines (quadratic splines). Both types of

[NTG-context] Unicode.otf

2008-01-10 Thread luigi scarso
>There is a better font if you need only symbols, choose the "Unicode > Symbols" link on the following page. > > http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ > I'm trying to use Unicode.otf from http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d I just copied it into texmf/fonts/opentype/unicodesymbols/Unicode.otf run luatools --