From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4108 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Uwe Koloska" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: questions regarding truetype fonts Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 22:44:59 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <01021622445907.00577@bilbo> References: <3.0.6.32.20010216104413.016536d0@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394795 22929 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:39:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:39:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010216104413.016536d0@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4108 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4108 You wrote on Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 10:44: > >>I've been playing around with some truetype fonts in the WGL4 >>encoding. These have more than 256 glyphs. Is there a way to import such >>a font without loosing some glyphs? The 8r-encoding doesn't seem to be >>right for this. How can I access these glyphs in context? > >tex can handle only 256 glyphs per font at once, but pdftex will embed the >whole tt only once [handy for chinese with thousands of glyphs] You "only" have to prepare different encodings and reencode one font to more than one encoding. For all of this fonts you have to prepare virtual fonts for TeXs sake. Then map this virtual fonts to one reencoded ttf-file: 5ggra8r Glasgow-Regular "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8ar.enc