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From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: analyzing type-otf.tex
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:44:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0804072344h5fb2ecafkf0ab693e263c9cbd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00804071550w63f93e24w7f847695fb0eaabf@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> >
> >  Oh? I thought uc encoding would magically enhance my type1 fonts with
> >  full unicode range...
> >  ;-)
>
> I almost forgot ... to be honest, I wanted to say: "LuaTeX does
> exactly that", but then I have remembered that you have explicitely
> asked not to mention any LuaTeX benefits to you any more (at least
> until next TeX Live comes out) ... :)

This is indeed possible with LuaTeX because you could create a virtual font
and use any other character from another font with more characters but there
is no font with the complete unicode range, unicode support more signs
as you could use in one OpenType/TrueType font.

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-06 11:35 Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-04-06 12:37 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-04-07 10:58   ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-07 18:22     ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-04-07 22:43       ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-07 22:50       ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-08  6:44         ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-04-08  7:11           ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-04-08  7:25             ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-04-08  7:53         ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-08  8:13     ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-08 10:39       ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-08 11:41         ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-08 20:30           ` Henning Hraban Ramm

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