- From: Fabrice Arband <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] TeXmacs 1.7.0.10 fonts in Windows XP SP3
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 18:26:20 +0200
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Hello Denis,
How do your fonts look like ?
I juste upgraded Texmacs from 1.0.7.9 to 1.0.7.10 and the welcome
message looks like this:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/7/texmacs.jpg
There is nothing new, the previous version had the same problem.
And the behaviour is the same problem on two different computers (both
are under windows XP). I have no problem with Texmacs under Linux, but
this bug prevents me from using Texmacs from Windows.
Cheers,
fabrice
2011/8/4 Denis J. Navas <address@hidden>:
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Thanks MIguel for your follow up. I definely sit down to study this subject
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of fonts. I have made no progress to the moment. But I will inform the
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list if I learn something of importance to share.
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Thanks
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Denis J Navas
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----- Original Message -----
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From: Miguel de Benito Delgado
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To: address@hidden
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 3:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] TeXmacs 1.7.0.10 fonts in Windows XP SP3
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Dear Denis,
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I am sorry to see that nobody has been able to help you out with your
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problem. Have you made any progress yet? I know nothing about the TeXmacs
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font system so I couldn't help you without spending a great deal of time,
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and I'm right in the middle of my exams... Please keep us posted on your
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progress.
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________________
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Miguel de Benito.
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 05:38, Denis J. Navas <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Dear group members:
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> SITUATION
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> I have been unable to use other font beaside Roman, Concrete and DejaVu.
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> Recently in this list, Aleksandr Dobkin contributed a zip file with an
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> ample collections of fonts. I copied those fonts to my user folder
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> (C:\Documents and Settings\Denis\Datos de programa\TeXmacs), but because it
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> doesn't work as expected I copied to C:\SinMenu\TeXmacs\fonts, without a
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> positive result yet.
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> The file my-init-texmacs.scm was copied to C:\Documents and
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> Settings\Denis\Datos de programa\TeXmacs\progs in both tests. I know that
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> my-init-texmacs.scm worked because I now have a new menu item: 'FreeFonts'.
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> But the problems are still the same as with previous TeXmacs versions:
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> 1) Some fonts render unreadable characteres.
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> 2) Other fonts, are incapable to render spanish letters, like á é í ó ú Á
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> É Í Ó Ú ü Ü ñ Ñ ¿ ¡
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> 3) Some fonts aren't aplied to the text. I see no changes and I know the
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> face of some of these fonts.
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> 4) Of the additional free fonts, only Times works. The remaining fonts
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> (Palatino, DejaVu Serif and Liberation Serif), aren't applied to text, even
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> with the actions from the 'format' menu.
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> The only fonts that works for me now, are: Roman, Concrete and DejaVu.
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> With those fonts I can manage to have serif and sans serif types, but
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> between Roman and DejaVu are a great difference of style. I wish that at
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> least have access to the whole DejaVu family.
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> Just to complete information on my environment. I am using Windows XP
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> SP3, spanish with a 102 keys keyboard configured to latinoamerican spanish.
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> I included in machine path environment variable, TeXmacs directory, incase
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> this is of help. I had ghostgum, gsview, MikTeX and other programs of
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> personal interest that TeXmacs is suposed to interface, but I have not been
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> able to use any of them from within TeXmacs, yet. But this is other topic.
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> I included a file with my tests (Prueba-caracteres.tm) and an inventory of
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> what fonts works and what does not. I learned that this file is ansi
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> encoded instead of UTF-8. Could this be a source of problems?
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> I included also, some configuration files: font_cache.scm, preferences.scm
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> and settings.scm in case that this could help to identify a potencial
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> problem.
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> I read that TeXmacs can use font metric files from a LaTeX installation
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> (mine is MikTeX) to use raster fonts as needed. But this does not happen
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> in
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> my installaton. Half a year ago I saw that this happened, but now I don't
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> understed why it does not happen. My MikTeX installation is recent and
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> have
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> used it little. It is a full actuallized instalation. Maybe, TeXmacs needs
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> that all pk data be previosly built to get access to it.
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> I suspect that my problems are asociated to two situations:
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> 1) The character tables or encodings, probably have a glitch with
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> spanish. If I copy from TeXmacs to Notepad (I am using a UTF-8 font, DejaVu
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> Sans), some characters are in reality others. For instance, the aperture
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> interrogation sign is in Notepad the 3/4 character. The opening admiration
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> is 1/2. And the opening guilemet is \S and the closing guilemet is \T.
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> This
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> last two cases aren't critical because I can do a search and replace in
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> case
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> it is needed to copy text to other windows application.
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>
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> 2) Some how, the postscript fonts lacks some complementary files. I
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> can't identify what those file are, because the directory structure of
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> fonts
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> in TeXmacs is different from MikTeX.
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> The TeXmacs fonts manual (on Help -- Source code -- TeXmacs fonts), says:
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> ----
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> "At the top level, <TeXmacs> calls a macro of the form\
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> <\verbatim>
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> \ \ \ \ ($name $family $series $shape $size $dpi)
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> </verbatim>
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> as a function of the current environment in the text. In the future, the
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> top
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> level macro call might change in order to enable the user to let the
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> font
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> depend on other environment variables."
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> ----
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> At the begining I have had a hard time understanding TeXmacs, but right
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> now I am comfortable with it and want to learn how to use it properly, but
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> this problem with fonts stops me to use TeXmacs in practical things.
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> WHAT I LOOK FOR
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> I like to know about how to configure fonts for TeXmacs.
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> Could somebody point me to a specific manual or information, that explains
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> how to make fonts accesible to TeXmacs and correct, if it is the case, the
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> character table?
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> Many thanks in advance for any guidance in this matter and congratulations
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> to TeXmacs team members that have made available this impressive jewel.
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> Denis J Navas
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- Re: [TeXmacs] TeXmacs 1.7.0.10 fonts in Windows XP SP3, Fabrice Arband, 09/05/2011
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