From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16356 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolai Weibull Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: [FONTS] Japanese Unicode Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:37:17 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040903183717.GC4578@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> References: <20040903153435.GA4578@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> <20040903164433.18936@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094236652 24421 80.91.224.253 (3 Sep 2004 18:37:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Sep 03 20:37:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C3Iw5-0007IM-00 for ; Fri, 03 Sep 2004 20:37:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFA512788; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:37:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21755-02; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:37:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481FC12783; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:37:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741BB12783 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:37:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21445-06 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:37:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (unknown [195.54.107.70]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF6171277B for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:37:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from puritan.pcp.ath.cx ([213.112.43.242] [213.112.43.242]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20040903183716.FTQD1871.mxfep01.bredband.com@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:37:16 +0200 Original-Received: by puritan.pcp.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E21BBAE041; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:37:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040903164433.18936@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16356 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16356 * Adam Lindsay [Sep 03, 2004 17:50]: > >At least some of the glyphs came out alright, but a lot of them are > >missing. For the rest I get little gray squares. > > I think you're going to have to convert a lot more than just the U+30xx > vector... Japanese covers a whole lot of glyph real-estate. True, yet almost all the symbols where Katakana, so 0x30xx covers most of them. > >1) Eventhough the above procedure seems to work somewhat well, it's > >still rather complicated and I don't understand why texfont doesn't copy > >the .enc file to the enc/ directory it creates. > TeXFont is pretty tuned to use existing map files, and I can see how, in > Hans's original design (considering his recent rail against duplicate/ > incompatible encodings), copying an .enc file could be seen as a bug. Yeah, that is certainly true. > >3) Why doesn't pdftex find the .enc file once copied to the enc/ > >directory? Why do I have to place it under $TEXMF/dvips/? > > AFAIK, we're in a transition in the TeX directory structure, and so > things don't join up properly. OK. Perhaps I should try that minimal ConTeXt install I read about somewhere. nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}