Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/18/06, sjoerd siebinga wrote: > On 18 Jan 2006, at 13:10, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > If the placement of the > > macron doesn't suit your font, you can redefine it and get rid of > > those \uchar-s. > > What is the best way to redefine the accents (like macron, acute, > etc.) to say a standard

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-19 um 21:51 schrieb sjoerd siebinga: I have never before had reason to suspect the heritage of this font since it was also used in a web-based project by the Santa Fe institute of advanced studies. Some academics don't seem to care about copyrights. (I did tell you more via PM.)

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread sjoerd siebinga
On 19 Jan 2006, at 20:44, Hans Hagen wrote: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Of course it's not your problem, but Hans is right: If you'd call a car "Daimler Bums" it would be a trademark infringement nevertheless... And I suspect they even took the code from the original Palatino fonts...

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Of course it's not your problem, but Hans is right: If you'd call a car "Daimler Bums" it would be a trademark infringement nevertheless... And I suspect they even took the code from the original Palatino fonts... so that font should be on the black list and an al

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-19 um 17:35 schrieb sjoerd siebinga: I found this thread rather interesting, even if my font problems are probably in another realm. Could you document your problem & solution in the wiki? Of course. But I am wrapped up in work coming three weeks. So if afterwards is fine could y

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
sjoerd siebinga wrote: BTW if the fonts really are named "Palatino something" there may be trouble ahead, because Palatino is a trademark (that's why URW++ names their version "Palladio"). I think the font is called Palatino Linostar. But I let the russians deal with the trademark prob

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hello Hraban, On 19 Jan 2006, at 14:17, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hello Sjoerd! I found this thread rather interesting, even if my font problems are probably in another realm. Could you document your problem & solution in the wiki? Of course. But I am wrapped up in work coming three we

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hello Sjoerd! I found this thread rather interesting, even if my font problems are probably in another realm. Could you document your problem & solution in the wiki? I just tried to get my hands at the font: http://starling.rinet.ru/downl.php?lan=en#soft But the EXEs aren't self extracting ZI

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
sjoerd siebinga wrote: Hi Hans, On 19 Jan 2006, at 10:43, Hans Hagen wrote: can you test with: \unexpanded\def\unicodeglyph#1#2% watch the double mapping �{\begingroup � \getvalue{@@\currentucharmapping\strippedcsname\uchar}{#1}{#2}% � \bodyfontsize\unicodescale\bodyfontsize � \font\uni

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hi Hans,On 19 Jan 2006, at 10:43, Hans Hagen wrote:can you test with: \unexpanded\def\unicodeglyph#1#2% watch the double mapping  {\begingroup   \getvalue{@@\currentucharmapping\strippedcsname\uchar}{#1}{#2}%   \bodyfontsize\unicodescale\bodyfontsize   \font\unicodefont=\truefontname{\unicodestyle

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
sjoerd siebinga wrote: Hi� Hans, On 19 Jan 2006, at 00:26, Hans Hagen wrote: did you try: \defineunicodefont [MySwitch] [MyOwnFont] % [command=\insertunicodeglyph] \definefontsynonym [MyOwnFontRegular] [Sans] \definefontsynonym [MyOwnFontItalic] [SansItalic] \MySwitch \uchar... \it ...

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-18 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hi  Hans,On 19 Jan 2006, at 00:26, Hans Hagen wrote:did you try: \defineunicodefont [MySwitch] [MyOwnFont] % [command=\insertunicodeglyph] \definefontsynonym [MyOwnFontRegular] [Sans] \definefontsynonym [MyOwnFontItalic] [SansItalic] \MySwitch \uchar... \it ...Yes, but still no bold or italics.

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
sjoerd siebinga wrote: Hi Hans and Mojca, Thanks for the quick replies. On 18 Jan 2006, at 15:22, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: You don't need to put silly \uchar{}{} definitions in the text, I'm indeed, uchar is not for this purpose and has special meaning in cjk (mapping to

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-18 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hi Hans and Mojca, Thanks for the quick replies. On 18 Jan 2006, at 15:22, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: You don't need to put silly \uchar{}{} definitions in the text, I'm indeed, uchar is not for this purpose and has special meaning in cjk (mapping to special fonts) and xetex

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: You don't need to put silly \uchar{}{} definitions in the text, I'm indeed, uchar is not for this purpose and has special meaning in cjk (mapping to special fonts) and xetex situations (mapping to unicode) Hans ___ ntg-conte

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
> Hi all, > > Due to the nature of the font I am using (which has horrendous > looking combining diacritics), I have to call the unicodeglyphs > directly through the \uchar command. Which works fine for the regular > face. But I am unable to get the italic glyphs via the same method. > So {\it \uch

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-17 Thread sjoerd siebinga
On 17 Jan 2006, at 23:54, Hans Hagen wrote: does {\it blabla} give italic? Yes it does. But when I place the \uchar{1}{01} inbetween the bla bla's the glyph remains regular. Sjoerd ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.n

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-17 Thread Hans Hagen
sjoerd siebinga wrote: Hi all, Due to the nature of the font I am using (which has horrendous looking combining diacritics), I have to call the unicodeglyphs directly through the \uchar command. Which works fine for the regular face. But I am unable to get the italic glyphs via the same m

[NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-17 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hi all, Due to the nature of the font I am using (which has horrendous looking combining diacritics), I have to call the unicodeglyphs directly through the \uchar command. Which works fine for the regular face. But I am unable to get the italic glyphs via the same method. So {\it \uchar{1

[NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-17 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hi all, Due to the nature of the font I am using (which has horrendous looking combining diacritics), I have to call the unicodeglyphs directly through the \uchar command. Which works fine for the regular face. But I am unable to get the italic glyphs via the same method. So {\it \uchar{1