Re: [NTG-context] Faux font
Sietse wrote: >> NB: I also have some recollection of dummy text composed of hollow >> rectangles rather than solid black ones, but like you I cannot >> remember where I saw that. Maybe the document also showed kerns, in >> pretty colors? I can't remember. Wolfgang wrote: > One of these examples can be found in the TeXbook on page 65. Found it; screenshot attached. And now I remember where I saw the hollow rectangles --- it wasn't in a document, but on the GUST website. http://www.gust.org.pl/ @John: we have now found * \fakewords: uniform black slabs with a thin line underneath to suggest descenders * Code to convert letters to filled rectangles * An example of letters-to-outlined-rectangles in the TeXbook * Outlined rectangles on the GUST homepage. Was any of these the fake text you were remembering, or do you think there is still something else? This seems a nice occasion to complete the wiki's [[Dummy text]] article. (Which also mentions the ipsum module for lorem ipsum text, by the way.) http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Dummy_text Cheers, Sietse <>___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Faux font
Am 22.05.2013 um 19:17 schrieb Sietse Brouwer : > NB: I also have some recollection of dummy text composed of hollow > rectangles rather than solid black ones, but like you I cannot > remember where I saw that. Maybe the document also showed kerns, in > pretty colors? I can't remember. One of these examples can be found in the TeXbook on page 65. IIRC a few presentations regardings math used boxes to show the position of the various symbols and the needed kerns for sub- and superscripts etc. Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Faux font
Hi John,
John Culleton wrote:
>> In some Context manuals (can't remember which ones) there is a faux font
>> that just consists of little rectangles of two different sizes. What is
>> the name of that font? Is it included in e.g. TeXLive?
Wolfgang wrote:
> Do you mean \fakeword?
Link to the This Way that introduces \fakeword and friends:
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0007.pdf
(I am personally rather fond of the \simplethesis command. (This
command produces a lot of output, so it may take a bit longer than you
expect --- just like a real thesis.))
Or perhaps you mean the black boxes in section 5 of the reference
manual's typography chapter [1]? Those are made by replacing every
letter with a black rule of equal height, depths, and width. I dug op
the code [2]; relevant bit is below.
[1]
http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography.pdf
[2]
http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography.tex
NB: I also have some recollection of dummy text composed of hollow
rectangles rather than solid black ones, but like you I cannot
remember where I saw that. Maybe the document also showed kerns, in
pretty colors? I can't remember.
Cheers,
Sietse
% Converting every letter into a rectangle.
\def\somecharacter#1%
{\setbox0=\hbox{#1}%
\blackrule[width=\wd0,height=\ht0,depth=\dp0]}
\def\someline%
{\noindent \processtokens\somecharacter\somecharacter\relax\space
{The height and depth of lines differs.}}
\starttext
\someline
\stoptext
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Re: [NTG-context] Faux font
Am 22.05.2013 um 16:13 schrieb john Culleton :
>
> In some Context manuals (can't remember which ones) there is a faux font
> that just consists of little rectangles of two different sizes. What is
> the name of that font? Is it included in e.g. TeXLive?
Do you mean \fakeword?
\usemodule[visual]
\starttext
\dorecurse{10}{\fakeword\space}
\blank
\dorecurse{10}{\fakewords{2}{8}\par}
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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[NTG-context] Faux font
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