Missing fonts for Canadian Syllabics

[ribose-jeffreylau]

Background

In this page, https://www.omniglot.com/writing/ucas.htm, one can find examples of glyphs for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.

Problem description

Each glyph would be rendered as a # character in the output PDF.

Expected output

Each glyph would be rendered as themselves.

Steps to reproduce

1. Copy and paste some Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic glyphs into a Metanorma adoc file. For example, the ISO 24229 document.
2. Compile it.
3. See the glyphs rendered as #s.

Further information

MS Windows and macOS use the Euphemia font for rendering them.

[ronaldtse]

The Euphemia font is available here:
https://www.tiro.com/syllabics/resources/index.html

https://www.tiro.com/syllabics/resources/compiled_data_sources/Fonts/Euphemia/%202.6.6%20Euphemia%20UCAS.zip

It come with a license so it needs to go into Fontist.

[ronaldtse]

Added to Fontist but not yet active. I think the Metanorma document needs to declare it uses this font (for this script?)?

[ronaldtse]

@ribose-jeffreylau after 2 years this is now possible. Can you help try this out and close if complete? Thanks!

[ribose-jeffreylau]

How should one go about testing it? In the Gemfile.lock of my document (ISO 24229), I only see mn2pdf (1.42) but not mn-native-pdf.

Is it the case of adding some syllabics into one of this repo's git submodules' xxx.presentation.xml then running make all? I tried it but the syllabics didn't show in the resulting PDF.

[ronaldtse]

mn-native-pdf is a development repository for stylesheets — it’s not a piece of software. The software is mn2pdf.

The way to test is just to add the document attribute “:fonts:” with the font names. If it installs the font, then it works, otherwise not.

We currently also lack the ability to specify a particular glyph in a particular font…

[ribose-jeffreylau]

Just an update here: adding :fonts: Euphemia did not change anything. It didn't seem to be installing any fonts, at least from the metanorma command output to STDOUT.

[ronaldtse]

Right @ribose-jeffreylau , this functionality is not working yet for 2 reasons. The font install doesn't work yet (ping @CAMOBAP on metanorma/metanorma-standoc#618), and that in the text we don't have a way to refer to a particular font yet...

[ronaldtse]

As suggested by @Intelligent2013 :
#368 (comment)

To indicate font for the individual part of the text, I think we can introduce new construction:

... text [font 'Noto Sans JP']#ABC# text... 

Metanorma xml:

... text <inline font-family="Noto Sans JP">ABC</inline> text ...

Something like this will work.

UPDATE: general task specified at metanorma/metanorma-standoc#647