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