Re: [NTG-context] new font trickery

2021-01-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/24/2021 6:16 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: But MuPDF and SumtraPDF (based on MuPDF) display it fine. An (in the meantime probably old version of) okular (windows) also shows it ok ... time to ditch (or update) evince I guess. Hans

Re: [NTG-context] new font trickery

2021-01-24 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 1/24/21 5:51 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: >> [...] >> I only get black cows and black squares for bitmap images. >> >> I think this isn’t intended. > Works ok here ... so are the images found? Buggy pdf viewer? Many thanks for your reply, Hans. Images are found, but not with "directory=default", but

Re: [NTG-context] new font trickery

2021-01-24 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 1/24/21 4:44 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > \starttext > > \setupexternalfigure[directory={global,default}] > > \startsetups box:demo:103 > \externalfigure[cow-brown.pdf][height=12pt] > \stopsetups > > \startsetups box:demo:104 > \externalfigure[cow-black.pdf][height=10pt] > \stopsetups > >

[NTG-context] new font trickery

2021-01-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi Jairo, (to the list for those who want to play with it) In addition to the metapost fotn subsystem I also made a tex variant. That one is currently based on setups. So, we now can use mp as well as tex to make fonts. Of course this is mostly for special purposes and for fun but both are

Re: [NTG-context] new font trickery

2020-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12/23/2020 11:36 AM, mf wrote: When I started using ConTeXt, font management gave me headaches because I expected fonts to be indefinitely scalable and not to be designed in advance at fixed sizes. That came from using software like Word, where fonts are scalable at any size. Since I had

Re: [NTG-context] new font trickery

2020-12-23 Thread mf
When I started using ConTeXt, font management gave me headaches because I expected fonts to be indefinitely scalable and not to be designed in advance at fixed sizes. That came from using software like Word, where fonts are scalable at any size. Since I had no background in typesetting, I

[NTG-context] new font trickery

2020-12-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, I finally decided to start an experiment that I had on my todo list for a while: dynamically scaling fonts. Below is an example of usage (plus some comment). In that example some 2*200 different font sizes are used which in mkiv demands 400 font definitions. This costs time and memory.