Does your work add ttf support? Sam
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Aleksandr Dobkin <adob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. It's great to hear some other people are > using the fonts. > > Are you using the PFB files with mainline TeXmacs or the OTF files > with patched TeXmacs? > > The OTF (OpenType) files are newer than the PFB (Printer Font Binary) > files and are a bit more complete. > > Here is a comparison: > > TeXmacs mainline > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/texmacs-fonts/sample-mainline.pdf > TeXmacs mainline with PFB fonts > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/texmacs-fonts/sample-mainline-pfbfonts.pdf > TeXmacs patched http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/texmacs-fonts/sample2.pdf > > The motivation for the git fork is so to have the latest TeXmacs but > with the additional fonts and Qt font rendering. Previously, I had to > use an increasingly outdated version. > > So if you are already using the patched TeXmacs with OTF files, the > fork gives access to the latest TeXmacs version but doesn't change > much else. If you are using mainline TeXmacs with the PFB files, using > the OTF files would give you a more complete character set and > improved onscreen font rendering. > > I believe that the old situation is that TeXmacs had to rasterize > fonts into bitmaps before it could show them onscreen. It had to do > this separately for each point size. This operation happens at > start-up and can take a long time. The Qt version should not need to > do this at all. As far as displaying things on screen, Qt may be > faster but it will not likely make a huge difference because the > number of characters that are displayed onscreen at any time stays > constant even as the document size grows. If you are using Linux, you > may want to try -graphicssystem raster. I think there are optimization > that can be made with regard to the rendering as a whole that can help > improve performance, but I haven't made any such changes. > > In my experience TeXmacs is generally very speedy. If you have a > specific specimen that you can post, I think it would be helpful. > > Alex > > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Alvaro Tejero Cantero <alv...@minin.es> > wrote: > > Thank you Aleksandr for providing this extended font support. I am > > currently happily using your freefont package for my PhD thesis (with > > Times). Does the new git fork improve on the typesetting with respect > > to the package, or is it just on-screen rendering? (I have to be > > conservative at this moment). > > > > And, as a curiosity - does QT font rendering make TeXmacs faster? > > > > > > -รก. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 02:49, Aleksandr Dobkin <adob...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I would like to announce that I finally updated my TeXmacs fork on > >> Gitorious. The primary changes over mainline TeXmacs is the inclusion > >> of additional built in fonts, primary a Time work-alike based on GNU > >> FreeFont, and high-quality rendering using Qt. > >> > >> The motivation is that I really don't like the Computer Modern font > >> which is the default in TeXmacs, but I like Times. There is some > >> support for a Times-like font already, but kerning is bad, ligatures > >> don't work, and math mode doesn't work. So I put in good support for > >> Times including good kerning, ligatures, and math support. > >> > >> Also, the font rendering is TeXmacs is not very good. I replaced this > >> with native OS rendering via Qt. > >> > >> The fork is available at > >> > >> https://gitorious.org/~adob/texmacs/texmacs-otf > >> > >> Please check it out. > >> > >> Font files have been added to the TeXmacs/fonts so no further action > >> beyond make; make install is required. I intend to maintain an > >> up-to-date fork by merging from mainline TeXmacs periodically. > >> > >> Sample output: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/texmacs-fonts/sample2.pdf > >> Sample source: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/texmacs-fonts/sample3.tm > >> > >> Alex > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Texmacs-dev mailing list > >> Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Texmacs-dev mailing list > > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev >
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