Seeking to re-typeset a long out-of-print classic on Xiang-Qi ("Chinese Chess"), but
with the pieces shewn as they really are rather than as upper-case Latin letters requiring a
gloss (the presentation chosen by the original author), I downloaded and installed Andrew
West's BabelStone Xiangqi C
Not sure if xetex can do colour fonts currently, You can always experiment
with luatex which gets this if using harfbuzz
[image: image.png]
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\chess[Renderer=HarfBuzz]{BabelStoneXiangqiColour.ttf}
\begin{document}
testing {\chess ^^
Hi David, Philip.
On 19 Mar 2021, at 7:17 am, David Carlisle
mailto:d.p.carli...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Not sure if xetex can do colour fonts currently,
According to here:
https://www.colorfonts.wtf
there’s not many applications that do support this new technology.
The colour doesn’t show
David Carlisle wrote:
Not sure if xetex can do colour fonts currently, You can always
experiment with luatex which gets this if using harfbuzz
image.png
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\chess[Renderer=HarfBuzz]{BabelStoneXiangqiColour.ttf}
\begin{document}
testi
Hallo Ross —
The colour doesn’t show in Phil’s example PDF, neither in Adobe’s
Illustrator, nor Acrobat Pro,
despite Adobe being one of the instigators of this font format.
So presumably the font isn’t installed correctly into the PDF.
Yes, I'd agree with that.
Unfortunately the link to ge
Sigh, I thought you'd like the challenge:-)
with luahbtex:
\input luaotfload.sty
\font\chess=BabelStoneXiangqiColour.ttf:mode=harf
testing {\chess ^^01fa64}
\bye
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 20:44, Philip Taylor
wrote:
> David Carlisle wrote:
>
> Not sure if xetex can do colour fonts curr
David Carlisle wrote:
Sigh, I thought you'd like the challenge:-)
with luahbtex:
\input luaotfload.sty
\font\chess=BabelStoneXiangqiColour.ttf:mode=harf
testing {\chess ^^01fa64}
\bye
But does that give a coloured glyph, as did your LuaLaTeX version ? I
ask because I have integrate
David Carlisle wrote:
I see colour here in windows firefox, widows chrome and xpdf using
cygwin X
attached luahbtex file and result
in Chrome it looks like this
image.png
OK, so it could be the TeXworks previewer that is failing to shew the
colour. But to get your plain LuaTeX code to
(Please cc possible answers to me, I'm not subscribed to the list.)
Dear Akira,
With up-to-date pretest MacTeX-2021 I get the same as Herbert, and cannot
reproduce your output:
% xdvipdfmx TransparencyTest.xdv
xdvipdfmx:warning: Invalid char in fontmap line: D
xdvipdfmx:warning: Invalid map
> On 18 Mar 2021, at 23:40, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
> To be sure I tried xdvipdfmx -vvv, the output is at the end of this message:
> there's a lot of font-related info, but no indication pstricks.pro is read at
> any time.
Some complementary information to my earlier message: compiling, still wi
If a pdf (pre)viewer component is not coded to do it by itself, the underlying
operating system may be called to do the rendering.
As per link in Ross More's posting, that may mean sometimes that a minimum of:
macOS 10.14+, iOS 12+, Windows 10+
– is required.
It's one thing to get it showing in
P.S. link for Laura Baker's article ...
"OpenType SVG Fonts in Print: Known Issues and Recommendations"
https://www.sheridan.com/books-blog/opentype-svg-fonts-in-print-known-issues-and-recommendations
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http://PaulANorman.info
On March 19, 2021 12:50:32 PM GMT+13:00, "Paul A. Norman"
wrote:
On 18/03/2021 23:50, Paul A. Norman wrote:
If a pdf (pre)viewer component is not coded to do it by itself, the
underlying operating system may be called to do the rendering.
As per link in Ross More's posting, that may mean sometimes that a
minimum of:
macOS 10.14+, iOS 12+, Windows 10+
– is
Dear Bruno,
On 2021/03/19 7:40, Bruno Voisin via XeTeX wrote:
With up-to-date pretest MacTeX-2021 I get the same as Herbert, and cannot
reproduce your output:
Sorry, I'm not so familiar with Ghostscript and I don't understand the
difference.
The reported security problem is for Windows, so I
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