From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/86004 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arthur Reutenauer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:45:42 +0000 Message-ID: <20140117204542.GN3937@phare.normalesup.org> References: <52D85BF4.6030905@uni-bonn.de> <52D91263.3040601@wxs.nl> <52D95482.3060201@rik.users.panix.com> <52D9723A.4080501@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389991540 26604 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2014 20:45:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:45:40 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jan 17 21:45:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4GIW-0006hl-Cg for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:45:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A929B101EA; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:45:47 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id eZ6iaj6Poc7Q; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:45:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B398101E6; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:45:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6001F101E6 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:45:45 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 5bh9wSKbypHN for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:45:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (filter4-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.72]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89D0101E1 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:45:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nef2.ens.fr (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.40]) by filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id s0HKvwcB002971 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:57:58 +0100 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 s0HKjgq3080282 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:45:42 +0100 (CET) X-Envelope-To: Original-Received: by phare.normalesup.org (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 600CB48002; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:45:42 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.1.4 (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:45:42 +0100 (CET) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.9999 (Score 4.7, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=129.199.96.40; country=FR; region=A8; city=Paris; latitude=48.8667; longitude=2.3333; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.8667,2.3333&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 01Lf8VWRM - 1f43407e060a - 20140117 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.72 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:86004 Archived-At: > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________