From: Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:45:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140117204542.GN3937@phare.normalesup.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsZsh6V--qnWqvv9d7p=w=05jADJ1aM3BhH5e=q6c8EaYg@mail.gmail.com>
> I don't think so. We can end up with a neverending and always
> incomplete list (with theoretically unlimited number of entries),
> usable only to those few people who will care to contribute.
I couldn't agree more. Unicode already has mechanisms to encode just
about any accented character, and OpenType has its own mechanisms to
display them very accurately. It's best to use these standard features
and an appropriate font.
Arthur
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-16 22:23 Thomas A. Schmitz
2014-01-17 11:22 ` Hans Hagen
2014-01-17 16:04 ` Need for \buildtextaccent, was " Rik Kabel
2014-01-17 18:11 ` Hans Hagen
2014-01-17 18:39 ` Mojca Miklavec
2014-01-17 18:51 ` Hans Hagen
2014-01-17 20:23 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2014-01-17 20:45 ` Arthur Reutenauer [this message]
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