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From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Apple Emoji (was: Smileys)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:17:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110817161736.GA12475@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <252E49DC-1D1B-4196-A54C-3F33F3BDF06C@gundla.ch>

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:29:43PM +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> 
> > It is a bitmap format, a sort of quick and dirty hack by Apple to please
> > certain markets and it shouldn't concern a typesetting system
> 
> I think we should leave it up to the users what they think about using
> a font like this in typesetting. "640k ought to be enough for
> anybody"…

LuaTeX does not support other more widely used and supported bitmap
fonts (not even bitmaps inside SFNT fonts), why this one would be
different?

> I'd like to have "my" typesetting system to be capable of what users
> demands and not what I think is good for them.

If one need multicolored fonts there is Type3 (if it is supported) or
just a virtual font with PDF specials.  AFAIK, emoji is used in Japan in
SMS and other chat-like stuff, not something luatex is used for (unless
someone is writing a chat client in luatex).

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Egyptian
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-17 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-17 11:08 Mojca Miklavec
2011-08-17 14:54 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-08-17 15:29   ` Patrick Gundlach
2011-08-17 16:17     ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2011-08-17 22:15       ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-08-18  7:09         ` Martin Schröder
2011-08-18  7:31           ` Apple Emoji Hans Hagen
2011-08-18  7:38         ` Hans Hagen

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