From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21845 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: latin modern / czech polish vietnamese Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:31:09 +0200 Message-ID: <42F885ED.7050800@wxs.nl> References: <42F7BE50.1060808@wxs.nl> <42F8705C.7020808@seznam.cz> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123583470 31320 80.91.229.2 (9 Aug 2005 10:31:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 09 12:31:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2RNV-00014t-AX for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:30:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254FF127B6; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:30:36 +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 17281-05; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:30:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EBF12793; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:30:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2EA812793 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:30:28 +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 17263-04-5 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:30:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAFD31277B for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:30:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j79AUP40008472 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:30:25 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 7BAE61985F; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:43:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.52] (unknown [10.100.1.52]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E09B17D18 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:43:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <42F8705C.7020808@seznam.cz> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/1010/Tue Aug 9 01:39:07 2005 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21845 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21845 Vit Zyka wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Currently plr and csr metrics are still used, but an alternative is >> to make those encodings regimes and use qx font encoding instead; >> that way we can drop quite some metric files. As far as i know il2 >> and pl0 are only used for computer modern. > > > Do you mean only drop metrics from distro or also remove the > typescripts related to this encoding? > currently type-dis does some mapping and it's scanned by default; if we switch to font encoding qx, then we can omit that scan; of course users can always include type-dis again > I think the first is OK. But it would be nice to be able to use csr > font in ConTeXt if user get font from e.g. CTAN. Latin Modern was > improved from winter when I had some comments to accent's > position/shape and I use them but still there are some national > typography differencies that preserves csr alive. Hopefully these > diffs do not influence metrics. Perhaps, in the future, there might be > several LM fonts differs only in glyph shape but with the same > metrics/interface. But it is a question for another forum. there will be a new lm release soon (probably this week) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------