Post by b***@bcs.orgPost by Jim LesurfThat said, an alternative might be to hack the *Font* that gives the
maths/greek to change some glyphs to be ones you want instead of existing
ones you don't. :-)
I reckon that would indeed be the safest (and perhaps simplest) method. I
don't know the TeX font you mention, but the free Asana font can be
converted to Acorn format by !TTF2F.
Then its higher Unicode glyphs (like the N: U+2115, C: U+2102, R: U+211D
etc.that you want) can be displayed by !FontInfo from which the glyphs can
be saved out as a Draw files for insertion into a new or existing font
with, say, !DrFonty.
That is to say, you can modify or build a 256-glyph standard Acorn font
with exactly the glyphs you need and apply it as required to text in
TechWriter or any other program.
Just to caveat that changing the shape of a font doesn't change what it
means.
If this is for printed use only, then it doesn't matter what the underlying
characters are - what you see is all that matters. But if it's for
electronic use - eg use in email, PDF, web, etc format - then changing the
glyphs won't change the underlying characters. Any time you copy the text,
import it into another program, etc, it will interpret the characters
according to their codes rather than the shape of the glyphs.
For example, you could define '%' to look like 'curly-R' which might display
fine in Techwriter but if you opened the document in Word it'll appear as
percent.
You can work around this by turning everything into a bitmap, but then it's
not editable, resizable, etc. If you convert glyphs into Draw files then
they are resizable, but won't be understood as characters.
The right way to do it is to use the correct Unicode characters and use a
Unicode font with the right glyphs, but I don't know if TW properly supports
Unicode (I suspect not).
Depends what you want, really.
Theo