Re: symbols in luatex?

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Jan 6, 2008 9:26 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> > Do you really a contextname for every adobename in the list?
>
> no, in mkiv we can have use adobe names as well
>
> > I would be enough for me access the glyphs by name, I don't a macro for
> > every character but the list for adobenames should be filled with the
> > information from glyphlist.txt.
> >
> > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/glyph.html
>
> taht's what char-def is for
>
> >> Hans, should contextnames.txt be deleted now? So that only one list
> >> will be kept up to date.
>
> well, we can keep it for a while for sentimental reasons
>
> >> XeTeX offers \XeTeXglyphdindex{angleleft} (in LuaTeX you can achieve
> >> the same with some coding), but I agree that some high-level macro to
> >> access glyphs by name might be handy.
> >
> > I know XeTeX offers this method but method for XeTeX and LuaTeX would
> > be better, it could be used as replacement for \symbol a many
> > cases, untill you have the requestet glyph in your font but a fallback
> > mode would be nice in this situation.
>
> maybe a big fallback virtual font covering all of unicode ...

With Arial Unicode as fallback ;-)

Wolfgang
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