From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43727 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alan Stone" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: symb-uni.tex Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:06:05 +0200 Message-ID: <326847810809040906h77680c3eled5a9a103499bf7d@mail.gmail.com> References: <326847810809040745v27bd619ar51c4f8f31550aca6@mail.gmail.com> <48C00093.1060105@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0034173130==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220544515 15567 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2008 16:08:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:08:35 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 04 18:09:30 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 1KbHO8-0000Ki-RE for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:08:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E84A81FD76; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:07:47 +0200 (CEST) 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 06147-06-3; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:06:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E2811FC93; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:06:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178B81FBE8 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:06:41 +0200 (CEST) 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 06505-02-9 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:06:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF591FC78 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:06:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c10so6215nfd.44 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.120.17 with SMTP id s17mr12094923ebc.154.1220544365855; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.16.2 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:06:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48C00093.1060105@wxs.nl> 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:43727 Archived-At: --===============0034173130== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_41657_24377284.1220544365864" ------=_Part_41657_24377284.1220544365864 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline >this system is ... >a kind of obsolete mechanism now that we have mkiv Excuse me my ignorance... What mkiv feature/mechanism replaces the obsolete one ? Best, Alan On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Alan Stone wrote: > > Hi, > > > > re: http://source.contextgarden.net/symb-uni.tex > > > > What does, for example, > > > > "0x2000: Requires UnicodeRegular20" mean in > > \startsymbolset[Unicode Additional Punctuation] % 0x2000: Requires > > UnicodeRegular20 > > > > in the context of > > > > \usesymbols[uni] > > \def\mySymbol{\symbol[Unicode Additional Punctuation][*symbolname*]} > > this system is based on big ttf files split into pfb ranges where 20 > indicates a range (so, the font with symbolicname UnicodeRegular might > have many split fonts) > > a kind of obsolete mechanism now that we have mkiv > > Hans > ------=_Part_41657_24377284.1220544365864 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
>this system is ...
>a kind of obsolete mechanism now that we have mkiv

Excuse me my ignorance...

What mkiv feature/mechanism replaces the obsolete one ?

Best,
Alan

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
Alan Stone wrote:
> Hi,
>
> re: http://source.contextgarden.net/symb-uni.tex
>
> What does, for example,
>
> "0x2000: Requires UnicodeRegular20" mean in
> \startsymbolset[Unicode Additional Punctuation] % 0x2000: Requires
> UnicodeRegular20
>
> in the context of
>
> \usesymbols[uni]
> \def\mySymbol{\symbol[Unicode Additional Punctuation][*symbolname*]}

this system is based on big ttf files split into pfb ranges where 20
indicates a range (so, the font with symbolicname UnicodeRegular might
have many split fonts)

a kind of obsolete mechanism now that we have mkiv

Hans

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