From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30253 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \namedglyph (was: [XeTeX] \XeTeXglyphindex: just a short note) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:00:37 +0200 Message-ID: <44DE2555.4000504@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00608120039u69e5ec51n8d43cf72c6eafa91@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 1155409257 26879 80.91.229.2 (12 Aug 2006 19:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Aug 12 21:00:55 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 1GByj7-0001w0-0H for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:00:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1BD1FE81; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:00:52 +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 28775-08; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:00:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADFE1FE5C; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:00:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A85C1FE5C for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:00:42 +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 28776-03 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:00:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id BED701FE4E for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:00:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 958 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:00:38 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00608120039u69e5ec51n8d43cf72c6eafa91@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:30253 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Would it name sense to provide a \namedglyph macro in ConTeXt for > XeTeX users as well? (Hopefully the feature will be available in > pdfTeX as well ;) > \namedglyph is too generic; you ask for a \fontglyph\font{name} and even then, there probably is not sucha primitive, but just a lua call which will consult the font data so that one can also take care of missign glyphs anyhow, such a command needs to be defined for each engine, with proper fallbacks which is not somthing i'm gonna do as a quick hack/fix. Now, for the moment you can use your definition which you can always (some time in the future) map onto a context one. This way of asking for a glyph is low level anyway. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------