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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Re: Chinese
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:12:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <439EE4FA.5040200@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <439EBF8C.1030404@comp.lancs.ac.uk>

Adam Lindsay wrote:

> 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.

afaik pdftex can handle the indexXXXX and unicXXXX entries as 
alternatives for glyphnames

Hans

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-13 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20051212173143.94765127FA@ronja.ntg.nl>
2005-12-13  8:07 ` Chinese Duncan Hothersall
2005-12-13  9:52   ` Chinese Hans Hagen
2005-12-13 10:03     ` sjoerd siebinga
2005-12-13 10:34       ` Hans Hagen
2005-12-13 11:26         ` sjoerd siebinga
2005-12-13 13:02           ` your mails at go Hans Hagen
2005-12-13 10:46       ` Re: Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-13 10:56         ` Hans Hagen
2005-12-13 12:33     ` Adam Lindsay
2005-12-13 15:12       ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2005-12-13 15:29         ` Adam Lindsay

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