From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:37:13 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20110617183713.GA3044@polynum.com> References: <20110616121700.GA9131@polynum.com> <20110617153716.GA440@polynum.com> <4DFB97EE.2090302@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DFB97EE.2090302@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] [RFC] fonts and unicode/utf [TeX] Topicbox-Message-UUID: f1c2ed4c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:07:42PM -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On 06/17/2011 11:37 AM, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote: >[...]=20 > > but no hieroglyphes or Linear B, so it's not complete ;)=20 >=20 > The fonts may be lacking, but Hieroglyphs & Linear B *are* in Unicode; > see and > . I stand corrected (and this is why I think METAFONT is great: the ability to create "easily" what would be too expensive due to small audience). I do think that if Hilbert had had METAFONT to give to one of his students at G=F6ttingen, he would not have plagued mathematics with gothic... >[...]=20 >=20 > A C version of the PDF library XeTeX uses to translate its "extended" > XDVI format to PDF would be interesting. C++, though.... No, I'll not > reopen that can of worms today. I'm definitively not a C++ fan, so it's a pure threat. For now (I mean kerTeX 1.0) I will go the farthest I can go with 8bit TeX and simplicity, and try to gather enough knowledge around fonts so that I can decide after where to invest my limited amount of time. Not in the thread about mouse vs keyboard, I guess. --=20 Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint =3D 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C