[Textures] Textures 2.2.0b17

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 5 avr. 2011 à 11:18, Paolo Matteucci a écrit :

> :-) [Last paragraph is for you, Bruno!]
> 
> What's new in Textures 2.2.0b17?
> 
> [...]

Hi Paolo,

Thanks for pointing that out, and for the nice words! This section wasn't there originally when Textures 2.2.0b17 was first posted on <http://www.bluesky.com/news/220b.html>.

An important point is what it says about supporting all OS X fonts, which seems to imply that OpenType fonts are now supported transparently:

> Native Textures supports all OS X fonts, including "old Macintosh
> PostScript" (LWFN Type 1), TrueType, and OpenType; OS X does not
> support "naked" PostScript fonts (PFA and PFB), but there are free
> public tools to convert these to the now-standard OpenType/CFF fonts.

I did try with Textures 2.2.0b16 the re-encoding to MacOSRoman in FontForge, prior to conversion from PFB to OTF, as described in your message of Monday. It doesn't work on my setup: I'm still getting completely blank glyph charts, possibly because I used the deprecated pre-compiled binary at FontForge's site. I'd rather not install MacPorts or Fink, so this rules out using a more recent FontForge.

I was also getting blank glyph charts using your CB Greek and TIPA fonts. I've no idea why we're getting different results.

Are you, by the way, using Leopard or Snow Leopard?

On the other hand, things work better with Textures 2.2.0b17: glyphs are present on glyph charts for OTF fonts. I tested both with Computer Modern (cmr12) and Lucida bright (lbr), re-encoding or not to MacOSRoman prior to conversion from PFB to OTF. Re-encoding doesn't seem to make a difference.

For CM, conversion to OTF yields charts containing all alphabetic characters and numbers plus some diacritics, but other diacritics are missing together with the upright Greek letters at the beginning of OT1 encoding.

For Lucida, things do not work out for AdobeStandard encoding (8a), TeXBase1 (8r) and TeXnANSI (8y) encodings in that the glyph charts show a combination of the intended encoding with Macintosh Standard Roman.

To be honest, I've no clue what's happening.

Bruno

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