From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38514 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: symbols in luatex? Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:05:58 +0100 Message-ID: <115224fb0801080805o4f5e4ef4m9bd2d080b477d31e@mail.gmail.com> References: <5C1F513E-3C82-4BBB-A80A-0D2CB8D61498@uni-bonn.de> <6A7946E9-7A81-4115-A0A3-E6869CCF3D0A@uni-bonn.de> <477E99D7.3030009@wxs.nl> <20080105100341.522b4d1d.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <6faad9f00801050155u5f703672xe8a15b8fb570045a@mail.gmail.com> <20080106101552.43f78ed8.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <4781397E.4030203@wxs.nl> <115224fb0801070818q4311e846t48ceac0cd7994cc3@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00801071630g3cedc285p8da3cd1935bb0a04@mail.gmail.com> <47833277.30903@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199808432 21645 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2008 16:07:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:07:12 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jan 08 17:07:32 2008 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 1JCGzE-0005pm-8w for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:07:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C131FB14; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:07:09 +0100 (CET) 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 10442-02-4; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:06:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B14D1FB82; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:06:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50ED21FB82 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:06:31 +0100 (CET) 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 10442-02-3 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:06:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 974401FB14 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:05:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so3204851uge.50 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:05:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.66.221.18 with SMTP id t18mr858213ugg.80.1199808359053; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:05:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.67.19.16 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:05:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <47833277.30903@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:38514 Archived-At: On Jan 8, 2008 9:21 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2008 5:18 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> On Jan 6, 2008 9:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> > >>> maybe a big fallback virtual font covering all of unicode ... > >> With Arial Unicode as fallback ;-) > > > > I can try to get some Microsofties* to the meeting. Perhaps they'll agree :-) :p > > actually the typography part of ms is not that bad -) also, if i'm right > all linux distributions permit you to download/install fonts from ms > (someow these fonts are free); not sure about osx Only the normal Arial font, Arial Unicode is only AFAIK available with MS Ofiice. > > After all, if I forget about all the advantages of it (covering > > unicode symbols where typeface doesn't matter so much etc.), the > > approach would be fully compatible with Word in that respect, > > replacing all accented letters with the ones from the fallback font > > :-) > > well, you may as well expect worse in the tex community ... font feature > abuse and such > > > But after all: there's LinLibertine or the (symbol) Unicode font that > > one of you has mantioned a few days ago. > > yes, those fonts are very complete; i wonder if they may be distributed > with tex ... The unicode symbol font should be no problem. You find the following text on the page. "Fonts in this site are offered free for any use; they may be opened, edited, modified, regenerated, packaged and redistributed." It's worth to write a mail to the designer. http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/index.html Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________