Re: [NTG-context] [OT] − RobotoSlab Italics… or not

2013-11-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/23/2013 8:25 PM, Renaud Aubin wrote: Le 23/11/2013 19:08, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 23.11.2013 um 18:51 schrieb Renaud Aubin r...@renaud.io: Hi folks, I'm working on a Roboto typescript and starting from the work done by Zen Lima back in last July, I would like to push things

Re: [NTG-context] Simplefonts (new) fallback issue with Linux Libertine O

2013-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 22.11.2013 um 18:08 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com: Am 22.11.2013 um 05:00 schrieb Rik amphib...@gmail.com: Fallbacks (at least the range I tested) do not work with the roman face of Linux Libertine O in the new (core) simplefonts implementation. I first

[NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
Hello together, I have an arabic font, which is quite perfect, but only a little bit too thin, so that it seems to vanish into the white of the paper. Unfortunately this font does not come with an bold-variant. Now I tried to manipulate it with CorelDraw, just converted into curves and

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Rajeesh K Nambiar
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:01 PM, H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de wrote: Now the question: I obviously cant set the entire book (more than 600 pages) with Corel-Draw, and want too use ConText, of course. So is there a way to produce this boldness out of this too thin font within ConText, too?

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I did not manish to work with this font by simplefonts. I

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] − RobotoSlab Italics… or not

2013-11-24 Thread Renaud Aubin
Hi Hans, Thank you for the review and your suggestions! Le 24/11/2013 12:53, Hans Hagen a écrit : normally typescripts like that end up in tex/context/third (maybe at some point we can collect extra typescripts in one package) https://github.com/nibua-r/roboto-context/issues/1 Extra

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] − RobotoSlab Italics… or not

2013-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.11.2013 um 12:53 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: Any chance that this typescript could find a way to the main ConTeXt distro? normally typescripts like that end up in tex/context/third (maybe at some point we can collect extra typescripts in one package) I can add it to my

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.11.2013 um 15:32 schrieb H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de: May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts Thanks for your advice.

[NTG-context] No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
Hello there, I wonder why working with fonts is soo hard in ConText (much easier in Word or CorelDraw). See this following font (free, opensource): http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/UthmanTN1-Ver10.zip And try now this Context-Code:

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
To be more concrete, I added an jpeg from CorelDraw, which shows, what I mean with these little signs above the letters. They are vanished in ConText, but are correctly set in CorelDraw with the very same font. Huseyin attachment:

Re: [NTG-context] No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/24/2013 4:41 PM, H. Özoguz wrote: Hello there, I wonder why working with fonts is soo hard in ConText (much easier in Word or CorelDraw). See this following font (free, opensource): http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/UthmanTN1-Ver10.zip And try now this

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I did not manish to work with this font by

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.11.2013 um 18:12 schrieb H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de: May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts Thanks for your

Re: [NTG-context] No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/24/2013 6:09 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: shows me a little sign above the word the only issue i see is that this otf font has 2048 units and gets scaled wrong (in luatex's backend probably) definefont[arabica][file:uthmantn1-ver10.otf*arabic at 45pt]

Re: [NTG-context] No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:31:27PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/24/2013 6:09 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: shows me a little sign above the word the only issue i see is that this otf font has 2048 units and gets scaled wrong (in luatex's backend probably) It is actually a TTF font but the

Re: [NTG-context] No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/24/2013 6:38 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:31:27PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/24/2013 6:09 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: shows me a little sign above the word the only issue i see is that this otf font has 2048 units and gets scaled wrong (in luatex's backend

Re: [NTG-context] No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:48:05PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/24/2013 6:38 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:31:27PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/24/2013 6:09 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: shows me a little sign above the word the only issue i see is that this otf font has

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
The extend feature stretches the glyphs to get narrow or wide font but it doesn’t embolden it. The best solution is to get a font with a real bold style, money shouldn’t be a problem because fonts are cheap nowadays. Wolfgang Thanks, I hoped the it could really embold ist (like I did it in

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:52:31PM +0100, H. Özoguz wrote: The extend feature stretches the glyphs to get narrow or wide font but it doesn’t embolden it. The best solution is to get a font with a real bold style, money shouldn’t be a problem because fonts are cheap nowadays. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/24/2013 6:50 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:48:05PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/24/2013 6:38 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:31:27PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/24/2013 6:09 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: shows me a little sign above the word the

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
not at all, as you show way more input here as in the jpeg ... so first make a minimal example I did gave a min-example, didn't I? The JPG was only to make clear, what I mean with little signs. Is that clear now? Dont know how to say it better way (sorry my english) :), also another font

[NTG-context] Intermediate format

2013-11-24 Thread Jan Tosovsky
Dear All, is it possible to get the complete representation of the layout that is processed in the luatex PDF generator? I mean coordinations of individual text boxes, their dimensions etc. In e.g. XSL-FO processors it is provided in the XML based formats:

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
http://amirifont.org/ / - and more hard to find such a find in this style (Uthmanic). / There is no such a style, it is just a simplified (dumbed down) Naskh style used only in one single Mushaf. Why is that a requirement? Thanks Khaled, the Naskh-Style is not an absolute requirement, but it

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
Again, because arabic seems to be vanished in my first posting, I dont know why. Thanks Khaled, the Naskh-Style is not an absolute requirement, but it is very well known and very common (at least for muslims in germany) - and it is very nice, of course, this is an question of flavor. I know

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 08:49:40PM +0100, H. Özoguz wrote: http://amirifont.org/ / - and more hard to find such a find in this style (Uthmanic). / There is no such a style, it is just a simplified (dumbed down) Naskh style used only in one single Mushaf. Why is that a requirement?

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 08:53:00PM +0100, H. Özoguz wrote: Again, because arabic seems to be vanished in my first posting, I dont know why. Thanks Khaled, the Naskh-Style is not an absolute requirement, but it is very well known and very common (at least for muslims in germany) - and

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
It is my believe that Unicode has the wrong properties for Arabic standalone Hamza; in short you should just type a regular Hamza in the middle of the word and it will get positioned correctly. Placing a combining Hamza over a Tatweel to “fake” it is wrong IMO. So in Amiri you just type

Re: [NTG-context] ToC - right-alignment of roman numerals

2013-11-24 Thread Jan Tosovsky
On 2013-11-18 Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2013–06–03 Jan Tosovsky wrote: in fresh MkIV I use the following commands for building ToC, but I have no idea how to align the label (roman numeral) to the right. I am almost there, but things get complicated when chapters are combined with

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Ondřej Hošek
Hi Huseyin, On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:18 PM, H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de wrote: If I put the same arabic into CorelDraw, it prints a nice Unicode-Symbol for the number - see the JPG I have attached here, screenshot from CorelDraw, but ConTeXt ignores the brackets and prints just a verys

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
Hi Ondra, thanks for your help. Apparently, replacing a number enclosed in ornate parentheses (U+FD3E and U+FD3F) with a number in the end of ayah ornament is a specialty of the UthmanicHafs font. If I input the digit (e.g. U+0662) and then the special non-printable end of ayah character

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread H. Özoguz
Thanks, that works fine: \definefont[arabicamiri][file:amiri-regular.ttf*arabic at 15pt] \definefont[arabicuth][file:UthmanicHafs1Ver09.ttf*arabic at 17pt] \def\eoa#1{#1\char06DD} \starttext \setupalign[r2l] \arabicuth لأَفَبِهَـٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَنتُم مُّدْهِنُونَ ﴿٨١﴾\eoa \stoptext Now I