Re: [help-texinfo] how to use letter LetterGothic as tt font in texinfo

[Jinsong Zhao]

On 2019/7/17 1:13, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 05:11:56PM +0800, Jinsong Zhao wrote:
> > On 2019/7/16 15:51, Jinsong Zhao wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I try to use LetterGothic from URW as the default tt font in texinfo. It
> > > almost works, except for the single quote (quoteright?) in @code{'}. The
> > > symbol is missing in the output pdf file. The log file said that:
> > >
> > > Missing character: There is no
> > >    in font ulgb8r!
> > >
> > > The font is installed from
> > > https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/lettergothic/
> > >
> > > The setting for the font in texinfo is:
> > > \font\texttt=ulgb8r at 10pt %Letter Gothic-Bold
> > > \font\textttsl=ulgbi8r at 10pt %Letter Gothic-BoldItalic
> > >
> > > Is it possible to use this font in texinfo?
> > >
> > > Any suggestion is really appreciated.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Jinsong
> >
> > It seems that the problem caused by
> >
> > @codequoteundirected on
> >
> > if it set to off, the quoteright could be displayed.
>
> I think I have been able to install the font using a mixture of the
> instructions at your link and at https://www.tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html,
> but I don't see how to get the output in the font.  I tried
>
> \input texinfo
>
> X@code{aaaa 'bbbbbb}X
>
> @tex
> \globaldefs=1
> \font\texttt=ulgb8r at 10pt %Letter Gothic-Bold
> \font\textttsl=ulgbi8r at 10pt %Letter Gothic-BoldItalic
> @end tex
>
>
> X@code{aaaa 'bbbbbb}X
>
> @bye
>
> but both lines are in the same font.  I managed to get a display of the
> font using "pdfetex testfont".  See attached file.  The straight
> apostrophe seems to be located at position '037, it's just a question of
> how to get it.

Thank you very much for the clue of displaying the font table.

I get the correct output by redefining \codequoteright. The original 
definition (\char'15) is based on cmtt.

@tex
\globaldefs=1
\def\codequoteright{%
  \ifmonospace
    \char'37
   \fi
}
@end tex

Thanks again.

Best,
Jinsong