Hi John, John Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com> 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
