From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39908 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: analyzing type-otf.tex Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:44:24 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0804072344h5fb2ecafkf0ab693e263c9cbd@mail.gmail.com> References: <7F6B54BD-335B-48CA-B5EB-0A5012BB71B9@fiee.net> <6faad9f00804070358y732172bv39fb3e1c5bd738fc@mail.gmail.com> <3967C159-07A5-4DC4-896A-7C6DC9857017@fiee.net> <6faad9f00804071550w63f93e24w7f847695fb0eaabf@mail.gmail.com> 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 1207637162 12689 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2008 06:46:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 06:46:02 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Apr 08 08:46:34 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 1Jj7bD-0007WE-Hi for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:46:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 710EA1FBC6; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:45:50 +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 03544-01-7; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:45:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AD11FB39; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:45:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203A71FB39 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:45:00 +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 04005-01-5 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:44:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.156]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6841FA2B for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:44:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so383910ywa.74 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.225.14 with SMTP id x14mr3231570ybg.153.1207637064890; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.49.21 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:44:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00804071550w63f93e24w7f847695fb0eaabf@mail.gmail.com> 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:39908 Archived-At: On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Mojca Miklavec 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________