From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/50404 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:39 +0200 Message-ID: <05B22AE7-6615-45BE-AB65-7F264C5A5E63@uni-bonn.de> References: <68bfdc900905112201w66e00fb3q6213887b41d16bbc@mail.gmail.com> <68bfdc900905120209w3ad1650flde3019efa0bcda36@mail.gmail.com> <4A0941C9.8070606@wxs.nl> <68bfdc900905120259l5419c006p3bf79479e2e1839c@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00905130159n6128e355tc22a71a5ba740e7a@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00905130317v144a40cah215b4edfd6f6f6e7@mail.gmail.com> <8953458D-932A-4C42-A43C-A9455C550FCE@gmail.com> <6faad9f00905130412w28e7972cn4b682f64fcb6824b@mail.gmail.com> <157E2B05-D3C7-49F3-899C-C673060CB111@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242218986 30663 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2009 12:49:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:49:46 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed May 13 14:49:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M4Dtt-0006zf-G1 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:49:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F3D1FF1C; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:49:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15628-07; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192611FE79; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77431FE23 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15392-05 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586BD1FDF2 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.113]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n4DCmcNr025771 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:38 +0200 Original-Received: from homer.philologie.uni-bonn.de ([131.220.89.142] verified) by fe2.uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.12) with ESMTP id 16785356 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <157E2B05-D3C7-49F3-899C-C673060CB111@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=131.220.15.113; country=DE; region=07; city=Bonn; latitude=50.7333; longitude=7.1000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.7333,7.1000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 224655663 - 4cd0b35857fa - 20090513 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:50404 Archived-At: On May 13, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> (Just thinking alound: aren't there plenty of books around that also >> mix lots of greek and latin, possibly using different fonts for them? >> How do they deal with the problem, or is the problem just >> neglectable?) > > Dunno, AFAIR Thomas use switch to a different font in his greek > module, > in mkiv this is trivia with font fallbacks. > > Wolfgang Just FYI: yes, I do use switchtobodyfont in my Greek module, but I have more or less given up on XeTeX, so I've never encountered the problem. The font fallback is great for filling in some glyphs, but I haven't yet used it for entire Greek passages; haven't yet seen the advantage over switching the bodyfont. All best Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________