From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24326 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Chinese Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:12:58 +0100 Message-ID: <439EE4FA.5040200@wxs.nl> References: <20051212173143.94765127FA@ronja.ntg.nl> <439E8152.7020100@capdm.com> <439E99D2.3000804@wxs.nl> <439EBF8C.1030404@comp.lancs.ac.uk> 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 1134487124 14147 80.91.229.2 (13 Dec 2005 15:18:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Dec 13 16:18:41 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 1EmBtR-0004wz-1r for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:16:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A4CD127A7; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:16:40 +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 05798-06; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:16:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D406D127E2; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:13:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302DD127E2 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:13:06 +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 05798-05 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:13:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F07B127A7 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:13:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 7539 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:19:35 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <439EBF8C.1030404@comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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:24326 Archived-At: 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