From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: news3@nililand.de
Subject: Re: Using virtual fonts defined with lua-code
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:46:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110208144604.GA3943@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D514F77.8010207@wxs.nl>
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:13:11PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 8-2-2011 10:40, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >The luatex documentation contains in section "7.2.2 Example virtual
> >font" an example how to define a virtual font "cmr10-red". The font
> >is defined by adding the code to the define_font callback.
> >
> >Does some interface exists in contex/mkiv which allows to use such
> >virtual fonts together with the normal font loading code? E.g. could
> >I move the code for the font to some file ("cmr10-red.vflua") so
> >that a request \font\mytest="cmr10-red" will simply find this file
> >and use the code like vf, tfm or otf-files are found and used when
> >needed?
>
> It's relatively easy to add support for that. However, when I've
> done that Khaled has to make sure that it also works in his wrapper
> code as I don't know to what extend he overloads code. I can only
> test in the plain variant and context.
I keep it as minimal as possible (I've even some "feature requests" to
keep our local changes more smaller, but no time to check it now).
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Egyptian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-08 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-08 9:40 Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-08 14:13 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-08 14:41 ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-08 16:17 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-08 14:46 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2011-02-08 16:07 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-09 9:55 ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-09 13:52 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-09 11:23 ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-09 13:30 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-09 16:09 ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-09 16:36 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-10 10:03 ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-02-10 10:26 ` Hans Hagen
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