Hi,
On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM Hans Hagen via ntg-context
<ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
>
> On 8/10/2025 11:26 AM, John Was wrote:
> > Dear Wolfgang and Pablo
> >
> > Many thanks for the replies. I've no immediate requirement for small
> > in-text graphics but it's the sort of thing that could well come up in a
> > journal article or some of the early English volumes I copy-edit and
> > typeset. (But my lateral-thinking brain is just beginning to formulate a
> > possible adaptation for footnote tagging - more anon. if I get anywhere
> > with this.)
> >
> > It's good to know that some of these hieroglyphs are available in
> > Unicode (the specialist article I had to typeset had some non-standard
> > requirements specific to a certain set of inscriptions.)
> >
> > I well remember the relief when Unicode support came in for TeX.
> > Suddenly the first line of the /Iliad/ could appear as:
> >
> > Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος,
> >
> > whereas before I had had to get used to:
> >
> > {\porsongreek M{\etacircumflex}nin {\alphalenisacute}eide,
> > ue{\alphaacute}, Phlh{iotadiaeresis}{\alphaacute}dev {\Alphalenis}
> > xil{\etacircumflex}ow}
> >
> > It's surprising how quickly that sort of thing becomes legible! In
> > those days I latched on to WordPerfect (and even CP/M's LocoScript),
> > which had unique slots for Greek and Cyrillic characters, so that the
> > rebarbative coding I had invented could be introduced automatically with
> > multiple search-and-replace operations. I'm sure all this kept the brain
> > active (like pre-decimal coinage) - but then so does learning ConTexT.
>
> if i had to fake glyph that way more than once i'd make a runtime font
> out of the images but lossy jpg is not the best format for that
Come on, you would just clean it a bit, run it through potrace, and
then make a type3 font on the fly. ;)
/Mikael
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