On 8/10/2025 3:28 PM, Mikael Sundqvist wrote:
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. ;)
ah, like you did with the Lund University Logo on the new letterhead ...
take the low res gif from the website (if often the recommended method)
Hans
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