Re: [NTG-context] faking fonts with simplefonts
On 27/07/13 06:48, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 26.07.2013 um 22:22 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de: Dear list, I don’t get slanted fonts that I have to fake for a monospaced typeface that lacks an italic font. [...] I can only get the second \em working, unless I don’t fake it. What am I doing wrong here? It’s a (already mentioned) LuaTeX bug. Many thanks for the reply. Wolfgang. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk ___ 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 ___
[NTG-context] bug in \type?
Dear list,
using the latest beta (it also happens with ConTeXt from TL 2013), I
don’t get the space in \type{\em #1}.
Here you have a minimal sample that shows the difference with other
verbatim commands:
\starttext
\type{\em #1}
\arg{\em #1}
\starttyping\em #1\stoptyping
\stoptext
Is this a bug in \type or am I missing something?
Many thanks for your help,
Pablo
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Re: [NTG-context] Opening quotes problem with context.
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:13:18 +0200
Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote:
Am 24.07.2013 um 16:58 schrieb David Rogers
davidandrewrog...@gmail.com:
john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com writes:
Did a fresh install of context etc. from the context site. I used
this test file:
---
\starttext
``Hello world.'' And ``Goodbye world.''
\stoptext
%\bye
-
The resulting pdf shows two left tick marks for opening quotes but
the closing quotes are proper curly quotes.
If I modify the file as follows:
---
%\starttext
``Hello world.'' And ``Goodbye world.''
%\stoptext
\bye
---
and use luatex or pdftex from texlive the quotes are OK.
I got similar results from context in texlive 2012 and texlive
2013.
What is the proper code for opening quotes in context?
The truly proper code is \quotation{Hello world.} - that style is
guaranteed to work. (And, for instance, if you change context's
language to French, then \quotation{Bonjour monde.} will
automatically give you the correct style of French quotation marks
without having to look up how to type them; likewise for other
languages.)
There is nothing wrong by using „ “ ” « » etc. for quotations. When
you use \quotation etc. you don’t have to bother about the correct
marks for your language (you can also change them) but the code is
easier to read when you use the real signs.
I think the problem of the two left tick marks may come from web
browser copy-and-paste. Special marks, especially the quotation
marks, apostrophes, and tick marks, are often mangled when
converting to and from HTML. When copying any program's code from a
web page, watch out for those marks, they've probably been
mis-transcribed by the too-clever HTML rendering.
What John wrote is valid in plain TeX where fonts replaced `` and ''
with the proper characters in MkIV this feature was dropped because
you can use \quotation or write the characters in your text.
Wolfgang
_
Understood. But when dealing with fiction with many quotations this is
a lot of extra keying with no corresponding benefit. And writing the
actual characters in one's text is not all that easy either. The
original plain TeX method is not dependent on a particular keyboard or
the use of dead keys etc.
I think I will encapsulate the \quotation method in a macro like
\def\qq{\\quotation\{}
or similar. Two keystrokes are better than nine.
I note that the plain TeX version of closing quotes, '' still works.
Would it be that hard to make the opening quotes of `` still work?
Not every change is an improvement, IMO.
John Culleton
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Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:15:58 +0200 Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote: On 26/07/13 21:08, john Culleton wrote: I am trying to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the following statement for Linux systems: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts But I store my fonts in /usr/share/fonts so I used: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts Hi John, sorry to read that. Using the ConTeXt Suite the command I use is: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts// But I append it at the end of tex/setuptex. I’m afraid I cannot help you with the system fonts, because I don’t use ConTeXt from TeXLive 2013. All I guess is removing all OSFONTDIR from your configuration. (Running grep -irl OSFONTDIR . on your home directory should do the searching job.) Sorry for not being more helpful. I hope it helps, Pablo Hmm. Why do you use // at the end of the statement? Does that have some kind of magic? John Culleton ___ 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] Opening quotes problem with context.
Am 27.07.2013 um 16:29 schrieb john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com:
I think I will encapsulate the \quotation method in a macro like
\def\qq{\\quotation\{}
or similar. Two keystrokes are better than nine.
Use \delimitedtext[qq][quotation] to create a new quote command.
I note that the plain TeX version of closing quotes, '' still works.
Would it be that hard to make the opening quotes of `` still work?
You’re wrong the output of '' looks correct but it isn’t as you can see in
the following example. When you write ' context replaces it with ’ which
is together with -- and --- one of the remaining fake ligatures which
can be enabled with the “tlig=yes” in \definefontfeature.
\starttext
\type{''} = ''
\type{”} = ”
\stoptext
Not every change is an improvement, IMO.
One could misuse the translate module for this but I really suggest to move
forward and use direct input of “ and ” or \quotation{…}.
\usemodule[translate]
\translateinput[``][“]
\translateinput[''][”]
\enableinputtranslation
\starttext
``text''
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] Opening quotes problem with context.
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:29 PM, john Culleton wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:13:18 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
I think I will encapsulate the \quotation method in a macro like
\def\qq{\\quotation\{}
or similar. Two keystrokes are better than nine.
I note that the plain TeX version of closing quotes, '' still works.
It doesn't. You get two apostrophes (which usually happen to look like
a double quotation mark).
Would it be that hard to make the opening quotes of `` still work?
No. See tlig and trep in tex/context/base/font-otc.lua.
Actually, I see no reason for not adding another font feature (maybe
called +knuth, +legacy or +cmr) which would be disabled by
default and could be activated by user.
Mojca
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Re: [NTG-context] Opening quotes problem with context.
On 2013–07–27 john Culleton wrote:
I think I will encapsulate the \quotation method in a macro like
\def\qq{\\quotation\{}
or similar. Two keystrokes are better than nine.
I'd suggest to use the auto complete feature of your editor. When
reading the source after six months “\qq” makes you wonder what it
does, if you use “\quotation” is obvious.
I note that the plain TeX version of closing quotes, '' still works.
Would it be that hard to make the opening quotes of `` still work?
Not every change is an improvement, IMO.
I always tried to avoid those pesky TeX quotes. From looking at the
screen it's hard to tell which characters you're actually dealing
with. And when you figured that it's two grave accents, it's still a
challenge to tell which quote it'll actually print in the PDF.
What about having your editor automatically replace `` by “ or
\quotation{ and likewise '' by ” or }?
Marco
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Re: [NTG-context] Opening quotes problem with context.
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I note that the plain TeX version of closing quotes, '' still works.
It doesn't. You get two apostrophes (which usually happen to look like
a double quotation mark).
I need to add that converting character 27 (') into apostrophe was
considered a crucial functionality, so it was kept. Nobody can imagine
getting the proper apostrophe on keyboard and its use is very common.
On the other hand many languages use different quotation marks and
using ``these'' is completely americanocentric. On top,
auto-replacement lead to inability to typeset the actual backtick (`)
when it's needed. So yes, getting rid of `` replaced by quotation by
default *was* an improvement.
If you are worried about the number of strokes you can always
configure your keyboard to give the quotation marks by pressing
alt-gr+something (an equivalent effort of typing an uppercase letter).
Or you can define
\def\q#1{\quotation{#1}}
The big advantage of \quotation{...} is that it automatically gives
you the right quotation marks for the active language. And for me it's
also convenient that I can easily switch which quotation marks are
used (both guilemets and double comma-style are allowed in our
grammar, and I sometimes change my mind about which ones should be
used in the middle of the project). Or I could change the quoted text
to become italic.
Mojca
PS: I'm sometimes mad at what TeX did. Every (La)TeX user read a
(La)TeX tutorial at some point and nowadays probably 80% users in my
country still use \v{c} (not being aware that they could type the
Unicode characters the same way as they do in Word), either the wrong
font encoding (OT1; without proper hyphenation and with weirdly
composed glyphs) or the bitmap fonts, and the grammatically incorrect
version of ``quotes''. This is what they learnt from manuals. In
ConTeXt UTF-8 just works and \quotation{...} is a lot better than
those weird ``artefacts''.
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Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.
On 27/07/13 16:34, john Culleton wrote: On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:15:58 +0200 Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote: [...] Using the ConTeXt Suite the command I use is: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts// Hmm. Why do you use // at the end of the statement? Does that have some kind of magic? I was told this makes ConTeXt to look for fonts in subdirectories. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk ___ 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 ___
