From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31683 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XeTeX and built-in glyph generation Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:57:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4549DD22.4050003@wxs.nl> References: <4549CCFE.50105@wxs.nl> 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 1162468673 32652 80.91.229.2 (2 Nov 2006 11:57:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:57:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 02 12:57:50 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 1GfbCY-0004HV-Fj for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:57:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D77D1FEEB; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:57:40 +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 23172-03-2; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:57:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6C81FEEC; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:57:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C121FEF9 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:57:27 +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 23172-03 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:57:21 +0100 (CET) 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 8792A1FEEB for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:57:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 16342 for ; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:57:21 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: 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:31683 Archived-At: Philipp Reichmuth wrote: > Hans Hagen schrieb: > >> Philipp Reichmuth wrote: >> >>> - character[ range]s which get passed directly to the underlying engine >>> (useful mainly with XeTeX and possibly with Aleph/Omega) >>> - character[ range]s which get constructed from accents >>> - character[ range]s which get used from a different typescript; for >>> example if I have passages or quotations in a script which isn't >>> available in my typescript, it would be nice to say that "all >>> IPA/Greek/Old Church Slavonic" should come from a substitution >>> typescript where these scripts are available and look good. >>> >> we're going to built that kind of logic (and a bit more) into luatex / context mkiv ; after that we can see to what extend we can support the xetex way as well >> >> after tug 2006 we enter the font part pf the luatex/orientaltex project >> > > OK. Sounds great. If you need a tester, I'll be more than happy to > provide lots of awkward cases and sift through them. > > In the meantime, is it possible to enable/disable ConTeXt's UTF-8 > handler selectively for pieces of text? such as: > > \starttext > \enableregime[utf] > - some Unicode text processed by CoNTeXt for diacritics etc. - > \disableregime[utf] > - some Unicode text in some other script processed natively by XeTeX - > \stoptext > > That would do the job in the meantime. > > hm, dunno, this is related to active characters (>255) and such; currently the utf handler is disables in xetex mode 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------