William Overington
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31 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Look at the OpenType section where you enabled Discretionary Ligatures (for sequences like ‘sk’) and Historical Forms (for the long ess). You should find checkboxes there for Initial Forms and Final Forms.
Well I can't find it.
I am still running version 1.9.0.932, is what you refer to in a later version? I have not updated because I read reports of people having problems and I alsp I have had not used Affinity Publisher for a while.
Also, it might be somethimg not set up as an option somewhere. I was actually wondering whether Affinity Publisher has a Find and Replace feature like PagePlus as I could not find it and then found that it is off by default!
So could ypu possible detail it explicitly please as I simply cannot find it.
William
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1 minute ago, Alfred said:
You must have found something about final forms in order to change the appearance of most of the word-final ‘e’ characters.
No, I just added a hexadecimal 200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE after each swash 'e' that was not at the end of a line, so each 'e' was no longer at the end of a word as far as the software was concerned. Red spelling mistake underlining in the display in Affinity Publisher, but no matter.
William
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Although the font has fifteen long s ligatures it does not have ligature glyphs for a long s followed by any of 'a', 'c', 'e', 'o', and 'u'.
However, I am hoping to be able to use kerning within Affinity Publisher so as to improve the look of such sequences, some of which appear in the image.
Yet I need to work out how much kerning to use, perhaps using the long s i ligature as a guide.
As the font is SIL licensed it may be possible to produce a derivate font adding those extra ligatures.
I wonder if, and if so, how, one could produce a long s swash 'e' glyph that gets used at the end of a word or at the end of a line.
William
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10 minutes ago, Ali said:
I don't understand what "eye rhyming coming" means. Did you mean "aye, rhyming coming"?
I hope that the following will explain and also be of interest.
A song that features an eye rhyme
Incidentally reading through those song lyrics I noticed that it is structurally very similar to the structure of the following song which I first learned about a few days ago, quite by chance, it popped up in a sequence of videos, namely in having verses each of six lines with lines three and four being repeated as lines five and six.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVJDKlhM78U
I found the lyrics in German on the web and then got a translation from Google Translate.
I then watched the video again and noted how the images have been chosen to match the lyrics in some places.
37 minutes ago, Ali said:It's a good start, William, but quite a few of the lines don't scan and are clumsy, so I think it needs a bit more work.
7/10. 😊
Thank you.
William
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Looking through the font using the FontCreator program, I found that not only does the font support the long s character, it also includes fifteen long s ligatures. Five of them are used in this poem.
William
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Please note that that was not what I said myself, I simply posted the Google translate version of the English translation of the original German post.
William
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21 minutes ago, Alfred said:
If you select the text frame, any OpenType features that you enable will be applied to all the text in the frame. If you highlight a run of text, enabling a feature will only apply to the selected text.
10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:In the Character Panel, in the Typography section, you can click on the ... icon to view the Typography panel. Changes made there will apply to selected text (or the entire frame, as Alfred mentioned).
You can also reach that panel by clicking on the Typography icon (fi) on the Context Toolbar with a text tool selected. Note that it may be off the end of the toolbar, requiring you to use the chevron icon to get the dropdown.
I can't find anything about final forms.
William
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24 minutes ago, Alfred said:
OpenType features such as final forms can be specified at the character level, so it’s fairly straightforward. Instead of applying them globally and hunting through the text to switch them off where you don’t want them, you can apply them only where you do want them.
How exactly please? I can't find it.
William
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6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Not knowing where to find it, basically.
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond?query=EB+Garamond
William
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I used a hexadecimal 200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE after each 'e' that ended a non-end-of-line word. Each such word then became flagged as a spelling error, so the 'e' at the end of the word was regarded as being in a word. First I had to find, using the FontCreator program, that the font did actually include a ZERO WIDTH SPACE character.
Getting the hexadecimal 200B character onto the clip board was a bit of a problem.
I resolved it by going into FontCreator, selecting that character, and using the preview facility then copying from the text box.
William
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15 minutes ago, William Overington said:
But I have now., though I have left them at the end of lines.
I found a way to do it. Would you like to try to work it out before I say?
I did not alter the font.
William
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1 hour ago, Alfred said:
The basic font is quite elegant, and I don’t have a problem with the ch, ck, ct, sk, and st ligatures, but for me the -s ligatures are a bit jarring, and the final form of the ‘e’ interrupts the flow when it isn’t at the end of a line.
Here is a version without the -s ligatures, there were quite a lot of them. The way to remove them is to make the vowel before the 's' to have no ligatures by using the Text Ligatures features of Affinity Publisher. Interestingly I go an ss ligature when I removed the es ligature from the word 'processing' and in some cases an st ligature became added.
I have, alas, not been able to remove the swash 'e' that occurs at the end of each word at this time.
William
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1 hour ago, John Rostron said:
Is there any reason why you chose this font? For me (and I suspect many others) the fancy bit St serve to reduce readability.
John
Some time ago I looked through Google fonts - I was looking for a Venetian-style font, but did not find one - but I did find EB Garamond.
I previously used it on a design for a grretimgs card, which I have at home, framed.
I like the font, so I tried it with this poem and I thought it looked good.
William
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There is a discussion about the poem in a thread, starting at the following post.
William
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This poem first appeared in the following publication.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_second_novel_chapter_024.pdf
In that publication the poem is typeset in the Goudita SF font, the program used was Serif PagePlus X7.
The presentation in the previous post, produced today, uses a direct copy of the poem from the PagePlus .ppp source file.
The text was then pasted into an A4 size document in Affinity Publisher and then the text converted to use the EB Garamond italic font at 18 point, with the use all ligatures option set in Affinity Publisher.
William
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Google translate gives the following.
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I would like to say something about how the Affinity Suite is perceived in Germany.
Most public articles and posts from blogs and software reviews praise the suite beyond measure. In my opinion, however, far too little is reported about the publisher and designer. I can't say what about Affinity Photo because I'm less concerned with it. There are some online courses and many YouTube videos about how to use the software, but for me there are no reports in the relevant specialist magazines. I remember once it was said that the German market is the third largest for Serif. I am of the opinion that Serif itself, as well as us users, should do a lot more to spread the word. I personally see many users on Facebook who are happy every time when the software is "given away" with the help of a special offer. In my opinion, that's not good for the Affinity Suite!
With my MAGAZIN62 project, I am trying to do something to spread the Affinity Suite, because I am more than convinced that strong applications here deserve greater awareness. Software that is offered far too cheaply at regular intervals is quickly dismissed on the market as a "toy".
Dear friends of Serif - why don't you offer the Affinity Suite at our media schools at a reasonable price? Maybe you can also provide learning material ... it's just an idea.
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William
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This morning I tried going back to the afdesign file that I had been using before I made an afdesign file that I had saved from opening a previously exported jpg file and saving that as an afdesign file.
I wondered if switching to pixel persona and then exporting would give the desired 1500 pixel by 2100 pixel jpg file.
It did not.
Yet I then found the
Layers
Rasterise...
command, but the dot dot dot bit did not seem to need anything doing. But if I highlighted the selected part it showed 1500 2100 when selecting the Selection with background option.
Still learning but it appears that I now have a way to export a 1500 2100 jpg without having to first make a 1571 2171 jpg and then open that jpg separately.
I did these tests on a copy of my original afdesign file of the poem so that I would not alter the original flle.
William
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5 minutes ago, William Overington said:
Is Microsoft Paint the only way to get the result that I need?
No, it is not!
I tried again, but first I tried
File
Personas
Pixel
and upon selecting
Selection with background
the size went to 1500 2100
Oh one does need a steady hand to change persona!
Though I think one needs to add the rectangle and select it before changing the persona.
William
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3 hours ago, Alfred said:
As far as I can see, you need to rasterize everything in order to be able to discard unwanted pixels.
Thank you for looking into this.
I have just tried opening the jpg that I used to order the greetings card, saved as a .afdesign file then tried the masking. The masking seems to work alright but the exporting still has the same problem, it still shops 1571 by 2171.
Is Microsoft Paint the only way to get the result that I need?
William
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3 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Your screenshot shows the size when the ‘Whole document’ option is chosen. Don’t the dimensions change if you chose either of the other options?
The dimensions do not change.
William
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15 minutes ago, Alfred said:
You need to select the 2100 by 1500 rectangle and choose to export the selection area rather than the selected objects.
As far as I can tell at present, I don't seem to have that option.
William
Recycling poem
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I had not heard of that before in English. I know that in German there is a difference over the word Wachstube, which can either be Wachs tube or Wach stube,
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/430349/provoke-or-avoid-ligatures-in-micro-typography
William