RE: chancery font

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

Hi guys,

Ok, I certainly did _not_ intend to start a flame war, was just dreaming out 
loud:-))

>===== Original Message From Paul Tremblay <phthenry@iglou.com> =====

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>I think you can achieve the same thing with a well-written shell script,
>which can be interactive and can test all sorts of variables. Wouldn't a
>shell script do the job you want? I mean, imagine the best, most fancy
>gui you can, one that does everything you want with fonts. Now just
>imagine the same program in an ugly shell that would do the same thing,
>with the same interaction, and wouldn't that do the trick?

Something one could run from e.g. a WinEDT or SciTe gui shell would be fine 
(for now->)

>===== Original Message From "Thomas A.Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> 
=====

>First: fonts are a complex business, and when you
>venture outside of the normal Western character range, things start to
>get really messy (I speak from experience

I have even more difficult issues with Arabic;-)

>To be honest: in my
>personal opinion (and this is a very personal opinion), die-hard GUI
>users who just loathe the command line should not be using TeX.

Hmm, seems we've heard the same comment about Linux in the pre-KDE days:-) 
Seriously, there is room in the TeX world for a creative gui approach, and 
ConTeXt would be a much better candidate than LaTeX for that to work. Yes, 
this is just a dream for now...

In the future, maybe many years from now, someone may design a 
well-thought-out gui interface for the ConTeXt of the future. I for one would 
buy it...

>In a way,
>the current state puts a gentle, but firm sign on font handling saying
>"This might be a bit difficult. Be warned!"

Firm, perhaps, but I don't know about "gentle":-))

But Paul's idea of an interactive shell script is practical and I'll shut up 
for awhile...

Best
Idris

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