As for the first point: buggy afm files, I've tried "generate font"
from "fontforge" interface:
Even though I've let fontforge proceed to many auto-corrections, the
output produced
and then installed seems not to fit the bill: nothing is showing.
I reckon I've learned as much as can be done in one go:
=> I temporarily give up.
Nevertheless if one have information about the vector I wrote for bold Greek:
why that didn't work, I'll will gladly have it.
Chris
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Elspeth McGullicuddy
<elspethmcgullicu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As for the point: "bold uppercase greek letters aren’t mapped" I've inserted
> the following at the beginning of file "pkfonts-math.lfg":
> (I put the whole file it'll be easier to understand)
> => capital greek are not showing though
>
> I've mimicked the file "lucida-typeone-math.lfg".
>
> -- file: kpfonts-math.lfg
>
> local mathencodings = fonts.encodings.math
>
> mathencodings["tex-mrb"] = {
> [0x1D6AA] = 0x00, -- Gamma
> [0x1D6AB] = 0x01, -- Delta
> [0x1D6AF] = 0x02, -- Theta
> [0x1D6B2] = 0x03, -- Lambda
> [0x1D6B5] = 0x04, -- Xi
> [0x1D6B7] = 0x05, -- Pi
> [0x1D6BA] = 0x06, -- Sigma
> [0x1D6BC] = 0x07, -- Upsilon
> [0x1D6BD] = 0x08, -- Phi
> [0x1D6BF] = 0x09, -- Psi
> [0x1D6C0] = 0x0A, -- Omega
> [0x1D6A8] = 0x41, -- Alpha
> [0x1D6A9] = 0x42, -- Beta
> -- [0x02145] = 0x44,
> [0x1D6AC] = 0x45, -- Epsilon
> [0x1D6AE] = 0x48, -- Eta
> [0x1D6B0] = 0x49, -- Iota
> [0x1D6B1] = 0x4B, -- Kappa
> [0x1D6B3] = 0x4D, -- Mu
> [0x1D6B4] = 0x4E, -- Nu
> [0x1D6B6] = 0x4F, -- Omicron
> [0x1D6B8] = 0x52, -- Rho
> [0x1D6BB] = 0x54, -- Tau
> [0x1D6BE] = 0x58, -- Chi
> [0x1D6AD] = 0x5A, -- Zeta
> -- [0x00302] = 0x5E, -- [math]hat -- the real math one
> -- [0x02146] = 0x64,
> -- [0x02147] = 0x65,
> -- [0x00303] = 0x7E, -- [math]tilde -- the real one
> }
>
>
> return {
> name = "kpfonts-math",
> version = "1.00",
> comment = "kpfonts, math part.",
> author = "Chris",
> copyright = "ConTeXt development team",
> mathematics = {
> mapfiles = {
> "kpfonts.map",
> -- "mkiv-base.map",
> },
> virtuals = {
> ["kpfonts-rm"] = { -- MathRoman
> { name = "file:jkpmn8a", features = "virtualmath", main = true },
> { name = "jkpmia", vector = "tex-mr", skewchar=0x7F },
> { name = "jkpmi", vector = "tex-mi", skewchar=0x7F },
> { name = "jkpmi", vector = "tex-it", skewchar=0x7F },
> { name = "jkpbn8a", vector = "tex-bf", skewchar=0x7F },
> { name = "jkpbmi", vector = "tex-bi", skewchar=0x7F },
> { name = "jkpsy", vector = "tex-sy", skewchar=0x30,
> parameters = true },
> { name = "jkpex", vector = "tex-ex", extension = true },
> { name = "jkpsya", vector = "tex-ma" },
> { name = "jkpsyb", vector = "tex-mb" },
> },
> ["kpfonts-bf"] = { -- MathRomanBold
> { name = "file:jkpbn8a", features = "virtualmath", main = true },
> { name = "jkpbmia", vector = "tex-mrb", skewchar=0x7F },
> -- this line modified accordingly
> { name = "jkpbmi", vector = "tex-mi", skewchar=0x7F },
> { name = "jkpbmi", vector = "tex-it", skewchar=0x7F },
> { name = "jkpbsy", vector = "tex-sy", skewchar=0x30,
> parameters = true },
> { name = "jkpbex", vector = "tex-ex", extension = true },
> { name = "jkpbsya", vector = "tex-ma" },
> { name = "jkpbsyb", vector = "tex-mb" },
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
> <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Am 10.01.2014 um 23:38 schrieb Elspeth McGullicuddy
>> <elspethmcgullicu...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> (Gammas are squeezed together and \bf is ineffective, which is not so
>> with modern).
>>
>>
>> The characters are squeezed together because the font has wrong metrics.
>>
>> If the assumption that "mdugmr7m.tfm" contains the metrics for
>> "md-gmm7m.pfb" is correct, then fontforge show it (mdugmr7m), contains
>> bold characters, which then should show.
>>
>>
>> When you use a Type 1 math font with ConTeXt MkIV all characters in the
>> different
>> files are mapped to the corresponding unicode points but these mappings
>> aren’t
>> complete (e.g. bold uppercase greek letters aren’t mapped).
>>
>> For some fonts you would also need a custom mapping because not all fonts
>> put the symbols in the same position.
>>
>> Wolfgang
>>
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