From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28046 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Dense encoding, part II ??? Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 16:43:43 +0200 Message-ID: <446C881F.8070907@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00605180533j4dac643t245053079481188c@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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147963453 21081 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2006 14:44:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:44:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu May 18 16:44:10 2006 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 1FgjjA-0002ew-Oi for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 16:43:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C242127C9; Thu, 18 May 2006 16:43:48 +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 06357-03-4; Thu, 18 May 2006 16:43:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CF621279F; Thu, 18 May 2006 16:43:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73551279F for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 16:43:41 +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 06357-03-3 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 16:43:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id C07F11279D for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 16:43:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 17667 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 18:43:40 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00605180533j4dac643t245053079481188c@mail.gmail.com> 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: 2.1.7 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:28046 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > on the [tex-fonts] mailing list there was a recent discussion of > people putting effort into enabling proper encoding to support > typesetting of Lithuanian (in LaTeX). Before they start creating and > using yet another encoding (incompatible with others and not shipped > with any standard TeX distribution): is there any chance to finish the > companion encoding in some reasonable time? > i wonder, what characters do they need in addition to ec/texnansi/qx > Even if they keep using LaTeX, I think that the same mechanism can be > used in LaTeX as the one which combined EC (T1) with TS1. > > There is probably not that much left to be done. The letter part of > the encoding is finished (and the Polish fonts already ship with those > metric files) and quite some ideas for the companion font are already > there. The major part left is to create ConTeXt support for combining > two encodings, but from the past experiance with Hans that is probably > a matter of not even a couple of hours. > > Or should we wait for Oriental TeX first? > even with oriental tex, the old style encodings will be around for a while 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------