Dear all, I wrote my Thesis using Aleksandr's work, so I would be extremely happy to be able to load it in 'standard TeXmacs'. A word of encouragement!
-รก. On 15 November 2012 06:22, Aleksandr Dobkin <adob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a bit busy with work at the moment, but I will take a look at this in > detail in the next few days. > > I would expect that there would subtle but significant changes to the > metrics. For example, ligatures would be used. It may event be desirable to > scale the fonts so they work better together. > > All the code and files should be available at > > https://gitorious.org/~adob > > - Alex > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Joris van der Hoeven < > vdhoe...@texmacs.org> wrote: > >> Dear Aleksandr, >> >> I am in the mood for starting a (partial?) reorganization of the font >> system, >> so it might be good to have a more in depth discussion on the font issues >> now, >> if you have time for that, of course. >> >> First of all, I would first like to integrate the improved fonts that >> you generated in the standard distribution instead of a plug-in. >> My understanding is that we should start with the fonts in >> Format -> (Font) Name -> Adouble -> * >> >> I have a few questions related to this: >> >> 1) How much change is there in the font metrics? >> Can we use the same tfm files (not changing the line breaking), >> or should we foresee some non backward compatible typesetting changes? >> >> 2) Could you please prepare a patch with a replacement of all adobe fonts >> with your fonts (preferrably keeping the same names, but just >> substituting the fonts; we might change the 'Adobe' menu name >> into something else, if needed)? Please make the patch such that >> it removes all the old fonts and any stuff which is no longer needed. >> >> Next up, I have some plans to implement support for the native Qt fonts. >> I am taking into consideration your code. Or maybe we should have >> something such as a qt_font. I am not sure to what extent we can >> throw out the TeX font mechanisms. For instance, it seems to me that >> backward compatability requires me to keep the existing tfm support. >> Any opinions on this? If we replace all pfb fonts by opentype, >> would you have time to do the necessary conversions? >> What exactly would that buy us (increased quality? more uniformness?). >> >> Best wishes, --Joris >> >> >> ----- >> PS: the following links do no longer work: >> >> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/sample3.pdf >> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/TeXmacs-fonts.tar.gz >> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/sample3.tm >> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/native-fonts.patch >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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