From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24705 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Character names Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:18:56 +0100 Message-ID: <43AC0750.8060409@elvenkind.com> References: <6faad9f00512210619m2d45bai227752eb00d3f091@mail.gmail.com> <43A9801F.4020101@elvenkind.com> <6faad9f00512221700s4c200df9v6e2a0963304918b6@mail.gmail.com> <43ABEF42.1000005@elvenkind.com> <6faad9f00512230539p1e6ba86flfe724874e556b037@mail.gmail.com> 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135347653 14538 80.91.229.2 (23 Dec 2005 14:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 23 15:20:52 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1Epnmt-0007rc-Fn for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:20:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1947312901; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:20:46 +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 02654-05; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:20:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D1EC128E4; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:19:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3730D128E4 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:18:59 +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 02675-04-4 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:18:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [213.84.171.68]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56283128CA for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:18:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F7918363 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:18:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from glenfiddich.elvenkind.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (glenfiddich.elvenkind.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29904-03 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:18:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.10.0.6] (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671851823D for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:18:57 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-7.1.20060mdk (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00512230539p1e6ba86flfe724874e556b037@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvenkind.net 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:24705 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > I thought so. But the issue is not a matter of font designers, but of > underlying software. If TeX can't "unget" a character and replace it > with the accented one, you can't ask font designers to add dozens of > ligatures. Knuth didn't write TeX with Unicode conventions in mind, so > I can understand that, I only wonder if XeTeX, Aleph [and exTeX] > support such accents. Inside the TFM file, it is fairly straightforward to instruct TeX to create a ligature from "a" followed by "`" to "=E0". That is a job for texfont or fontinst, not the font designers'. But it qualifies as a hack, not true unicode support. Anyway, no point spending time on it if nobody is going to use it. Cheers, Taco