RE: Encoding and mapping glyphs from an expert font

[Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@lamar.colostate.edu>]

Hi Adam,

Thank you so much for your help...

>===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk> =====
>Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Sat, 9 Apr 2005 15:02:51 -0600:
>
>>By the way, I still don't understand how placing, e.g., /zerooldstyle in the
>>respective /zero position in an encoding file will instruct LatinModern to
>>pick up the glyph from cmmi10. In, for example,
>>
>>====================================================
>>texnansi-lmb10 LMRomanDemi10-Regular <texnansi-os-lm.enc <lmb10.pfb
>>====================================================
>>
>>How does ConTeXt know that /zerooldstyle is to be mapped to cmmbi10?
>>I must be missing something....
>
>I think I'm missing something from your description. What markup are you
>using in your source in order to ascribe these magical properties to 
OldStyle?
>Are you aware of the default mapping of OldStyle to MathItalic?

Well, Hans claimed this could be done without virtual fonts, and I was trying 
to follow his implementation.

Could you tell me where the default mapping of OldStyle to MathItalic is 
documented/implemented in the sources? Maybe I could make a similar mechanism 
for my normal-expert dyad.

Best and thnx a million
Idris

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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523