From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24321 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Lindsay Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Chinese Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:33:16 +0000 Message-ID: <439EBF8C.1030404@comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: <20051212173143.94765127FA@ronja.ntg.nl> <439E8152.7020100@capdm.com> <439E99D2.3000804@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134477298 11012 80.91.229.2 (13 Dec 2005 12:34:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Dec 13 13:34:58 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 1Em9Kc-0000wX-2r for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:32:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC421282C; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:32:33 +0100 (CET) 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 03955-01-3; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:32:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BBC12810; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:32:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53C012810 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:32:27 +0100 (CET) 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 03955-01-2 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:32:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB6A127E6 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:32:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [194.80.37.193] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jBDCWQPY018322 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:32:26 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <439E99D2.3000804@wxs.nl> 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24321 Archived-At: Hans Hagen wrote: > what we need is a set of encoding files like > > /UniEncoding52 [ > .... > /uni52DF > /uni52E0 I hate to be negative, but I have doubts about how generic this approach may be. In some tentative experiments, I discovered that many (most?) CJK fonts don't use traditional postscript names, but rather map from unicode to an indexed glyph number. Fortunately, ttf2tfm's -w enco@Unicode@ notation seems to address this in most of the old test cases I tried. adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-