From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31839 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: unic-xxx.tex glyph lists: minor bugs, questions Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:42:51 +0000 Message-ID: <4559ABBB.3060407@wxs.nl> References: <454DF4D9.4020808@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00611090851wc33a00bg34347cf4fc12eb69@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 1163504599 973 80.91.229.2 (14 Nov 2006 11:43:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Nov 14 12:43:18 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 1Gjwh2-0008H0-Dx for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:43:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A3B1FDF2; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:42:58 +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 21000-09-3; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:42:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507781FD1D; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:42:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1636E1FD6D for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:42:47 +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 21000-09-2 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:42:43 +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 A5F921FCE8 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:42:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 18112 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:42:51 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00611090851wc33a00bg34347cf4fc12eb69@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:31839 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 11/5/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Philipp Reichmuth wrote: >> >>> I've been writing a script that sifts through the unic-xxx.tex files to >>> get a readable mapping what Unicode characters are supported using >>> \Amacron-style names. >>> >>> >> mtxtools can create such lists using the unicode consotium glyph table, >> mojca's mapping list and enco/regi files >> >> we use mtxtools to create the tables needed for xetex (used for case >> mapping) and luatex (more extensive manipulations) >> > > I have mtxtools.bat, but no mtxtools.rb here. > hm, will be in the mkiv zip soon (or maybe all mkiv code will be in the main zip; depends on how many context users want to experiment with the declared-stable parts of luatex) > >>> Are the >>> unic-xxx files automatically generated or maintained by hand? >>> >>> >> maintained by hand, again, just send me the fixed file, but we need to >> make sure that the fix is ok (i.e. works as expected) >> > > Although there should be no reason for not generating them > automatically. I did that for regime files (I only wrote a script, > executed it and Hans included the files, so it's only semi-automatic; > it would be polite from me if I managed to incorporate that into > existing [whateverthename]tools.rb). > we should indeed discuss a was to keep these things up to date esp since in context mkiv we will use [0x00F4] = { unicodeslot=0x00F4, category='ll', adobename='ocircumflex', contextname='ocircumflex', description='LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX', shcode=0x006F, uccode=0x00D4 }, [0x00F5] = { unicodeslot=0x00F5, category='ll', adobename='otilde', contextname='otilde', description='LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE', shcode=0x006F, uccode=0x00D5 }, like table entries for manipulating encodings, fonts, and whatever > > But OpenType fonts also work on Linux & Windows. > sure, but one needs this fontconfig thing ; in my opinion xetex makes sense when it integrates automatically into the os-specific fotn stuff, since xetex has the 'use libraries when possible' approach; so, i'll happily wait till the announced integration is there (i prefer to invest my time only once in this area: cook up a generic and flexible way for luatex and then derive xetex stuff from that) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------