From: Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: xetext-pdftex differences
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:53:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070412155343913343.896f8989@st.estfiles.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461E0E1B.7040502@wxs.nl>
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:46:51 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:44:18 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>>> You should try to get "uc" working if possible, but you need to add
>>> some definitions from my previous mail. If you want to stick with
>>> texnansi, you should better use pdfTeX.
>>>
>>
>> I have a document with German as the main language, defined ...
>>
>> \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr]
>> \usetypescript[times][texnansi]
>> \mainlanguage[de]
>> \setupbodyfont[times,10pt]
>>
>> .... and inserted Arabic quotes in Arabic AlBayan.ttf, defined ...
>>
>> \font\geeza="AlBayan" at 10pt
>>
>>
>> That's why it's typeset with XeTeX. But nevertheless texnansi for
>> TeXGyreTermes seems to be fine (at least for now).
>>
> technically one can define a virtual font which uses TeXGyreTermes as
> base, but has additional glyphs taken from AlBayan; I do have
> experimental code for that but have to cook up an interface (not that
> hard, i only need time and motivation) ...
No no, stop!!! Don't do it the hard way.
ConTeXt has already such handy ways to fulfill my needs.
Switching between the two fonts is perfectly fine for me.
Thank you, Steffen.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-08 20:16 Steffen Wolfrum
2007-04-10 19:27 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-04-11 9:09 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-04-11 15:44 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-04-11 17:22 ` Hans Hagen
2007-04-12 7:37 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-04-12 10:41 ` Hans Hagen
2007-04-12 7:53 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-04-12 10:46 ` Hans Hagen
2007-04-12 13:53 ` Steffen Wolfrum [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20070412155343913343.896f8989@st.estfiles.de \
--to=context@st.estfiles.de \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).