Re: [NTG-context] Dotted characters

2016-08-20 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Lukáš Procházka 20. August 2016 um 14:03 Hello again, the dotted font works perfectly. I'm using Lua to generate sheets from a database which contains word-picture-picture2 records (see attached single page sample; I had to convert the image to .jpg to reduce file

Re: [NTG-context] Dotted characters

2016-08-20 Thread Lukáš Procházka
Hello again, the dotted font works perfectly. I'm using Lua to generate sheets from a database which contains word-picture-picture2 records (see attached single page sample; I had to convert the image to .jpg to reduce file size). One more question - is there a ConTeXt/Lua function which

Re: [NTG-context] Dotted characters

2016-08-16 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing .
Hello Hans, On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:54:26 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: the best one can expect without too much work is \startMPpage draw outlinetext.f ("A") () ; currentpicture := currentpicture shifted (-bbwidth currentpicture,0) ; draw

Re: [NTG-context] Dotted characters

2016-08-16 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing .
Hello Taco, On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:43:12 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Lukáš, Most anything can be programmed, but in this case the task is very difficult. Modern fonts always use filled paths instead of stroke lines, so an “A” consists of two paths: the outer shape

Re: [NTG-context] Dotted characters

2016-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/16/2016 9:43 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Lukáš, On 16 Aug 2016, at 09:17, Procházka Lukáš Ing. > wrote: Hello, I'm preparing a child copybook. I'd like to write a uppercased letter "as is" followed by its shape drawn with dots - something like

Re: [NTG-context] Dotted characters

2016-08-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Lukáš, > On 16 Aug 2016, at 09:17, Procházka Lukáš Ing. wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm preparing a child copybook. > I'd like to write a uppercased letter "as is" followed by its shape drawn > with dots - something like > > /\ . > / \ . . > /\ . > /

[NTG-context] Dotted characters

2016-08-16 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing .
Hello, I'm preparing a child copybook. I'd like to write a uppercased letter "as is" followed by its shape drawn with dots - something like /\ . / \ . . /\ . / \ . . I guess that some MP "trick(s)" might be used; also, a "simple" font should be used to be