On 2/15/2018 9:08 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
On 2018-02-15 10:42, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Ahoi,
I was just pointed to this LaTeX package:
https://github.com/davidcarlisle/dpctex/tree/master/typewriter
Origin/reasoning:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/344214/use-latex-to-simulate-old-typewriter-written-texts
hm, a real font mimmicking it is probably better because the shapes
themslves need to change (actually this is doable in luatex but i have
no time for that now ... also, i don't expect this kind of hackery /
show-off to be used)
I guess it would be fun to have in ConTeXt - might fit ASCII math ;D
the last decade quite some examples have been made / posted / published
that do tricks with fonts ... i bet no one really uses them
Greetlings, Hraban
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While some of us might object to calling this ancient (_we_ aren't
ancient, we are simply experienced), it does look like it might be fun.
sure, nice for the ctx meeting (i can just grab and adapt code that is
already around on my disk .. maybe it's about time for some cleanup of
font experiments . i remember some nice experiments by hartmut in the
early days of luatex)
Serendipitously, yesterday a friend pointed me to another retro font
site: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/. These are
available in ttf.
i'll add a luatex-fonts-demo-tt to the distribution which can be used
like this:
\starttext
\raggedright
\definefontfeature[badtypewritera][ttgrayness=.5]
\definefontfeature[badtypewriterb][ttshift=.5]
\definefontfeature[badtypewriterc][ttthickness=2]
\definefontfeature[badtypewriterd][ttgrayness=.5,ttshift=.5,ttthickness=2,ttfont={dejavusansmono}]
\definefontfeature[badtypewritere][ttgrayness=.5,ttthickness=2,ttstep=2,ttmax=1.5]
\definefont[MyFontA][file:tt.lua*badtypewritera]
\definefont[MyFontB][file:tt.lua*badtypewriterb]
\definefont[MyFontC][file:tt.lua*badtypewriterc]
\definefont[MyFontD][file:tt.lua*badtypewriterd @ 10pt]
\definefont[MyFontE][file:tt.lua*badtypewritere @ 10pt]
\MyFontA \input tufte \blank {\righttoleft لَيْسَ لَدَيَّ أَيُّ
فِكْرَةٍ عَمَّا يَعْنِيهِ هٰذَا.} \page
\MyFontB \input tufte \blank {\righttoleft لَيْسَ لَدَيَّ أَيُّ
فِكْرَةٍ عَمَّا يَعْنِيهِ هٰذَا.} \page
\MyFontC \input tufte \blank {\righttoleft لَيْسَ لَدَيَّ أَيُّ
فِكْرَةٍ عَمَّا يَعْنِيهِ هٰذَا.} \page
\MyFontD \input tufte \blank {\righttoleft لَيْسَ لَدَيَّ أَيُّ
فِكْرَةٍ عَمَّا يَعْنِيهِ هٰذَا.} \page
\MyFontE \input tufte \blank {\righttoleft لَيْسَ لَدَيَّ أَيُّ
فِكْرَةٍ عَمَّا يَعْنِيهِ هٰذَا.} \page
\stoptext
fwiw, the current luatex vf interface is stepwise made a bit better as
mixing pdf code into shapes is kind of tricky wrrt the backend character
stream flushing (so it's fragile and has limitations) .. i occasionally
look into it
Hans
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