[cl-typesetting-devel] Unicode?

[Peter Seibel]

So looking at the .ufm file for LMRoman12-Regular, it seemed that there 
was no metric for #x2014 (a.k.a. 8212). So I used fontforge and ttf2pt1 
to generate a .ttf and .ufm pair from one of the .dfont files on my mac. 
That font had a metric for 8212 but when I use it instead of 
LMRoman12-Regular I get boxes for all the characters. I do get a box for 
the emdash character, so that's progress in some sense. What am I doing 
wrong?

-Peter

Peter Seibel wrote:
> I've got this simple test program which, as you can see, attempts to use 
>  one of the LatinModern unicode fonts and tries to render some text that 
> contains a unicode emdash (code-point #x2014).
> 
> (defpackage :foo (:use :cl :cl-pdf))
> 
> (in-package :foo)
> 
> (defun test-unicode  (&optional (file #P"foo.pdf"))
>   (pdf:with-document ()
>     (pdf:with-page ()
>       (pdf:with-outline-level ("Example" (pdf:register-page-reference))
>     (let ((font (pdf:get-font "LMRoman12-Regular")))
>       (pdf:in-text-mode
>        (pdf:set-font font 14.0)
>        (pdf:move-text 100 800)
>        (pdf:draw-text
>              (format nil "This ~c is a test." (code-char #x2014)))))))
>     (pdf:write-document file)
>     file))
> 
> 
> When I run this function in generates a file without error but the 
> emdash is nowhere to be seen. Is this a problem with the font (which was 
> loaded from an .afm file not a .ufm) or with cl-pdf or with something 
> I'm doing wrong?
> 
> -Peter
> 


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