From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38843 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arthur Reutenauer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: MKIV Chinese typesetting Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:17 +0100 Message-ID: <20080128231917.GP19890@phare.normalesup.org> References: <68bfdc900801270151u7e763fa6y7d8935fc35637b3f@mail.gmail.com> <20080128021711.GA13410@phare.normalesup.org> <115224fb0801280826r7f7f5277s49c90c0f780d1987@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 1201562419 2358 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 23:20:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:20:19 +0000 (UTC) To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jan 29 00:20:39 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 1JJdHK-0000qH-3l for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:20:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B089A1FB30; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:48 +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 25920-01-9; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC261FB1F; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C031FB1F for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:30 +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 25920-01-8 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nef2.ens.fr (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.40]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F781FADB for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from phare.normalesup.org (phare.normalesup.org [129.199.129.80]) by nef2.ens.fr (8.13.6/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id m0SNJHNZ030333 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:17 +0100 (CET) X-Envelope-To: Original-Received: by phare.normalesup.org (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 873B238095; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:17 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <115224fb0801280826r7f7f5277s49c90c0f780d1987@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.1.4 (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:17 +0100 (CET) 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:38843 Archived-At: > This is wrong, fon-otf contains a few lua macros about linebreaking > and char-def has information about the character width (full width, > half width ...) > and other information like opening punctuation, parenthesis but none > of them is finished. OK, I thought line breaking would be managed in node-*, so I didn't look in font-otf for it. >> Sure, there should be a possibility of specifying a Western font to be >> used inside Chinese text. > > Could be done with cirtual fonts but we need a interface. Sure, no need to rush things. > You need the hang script, it takes care about the linebreak. What do you mean? How does it take care about the linebreak? And how can it be relevant for Chinese characters? Default Chinese fonts from Adobe like AdobeSongStd don't have a "hang" script at all anyway. Do you know fonts that have? Arthur ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________