From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/33046 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XeTeX and OpenType LM Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:09:20 +0100 Message-ID: <45C078E0.8080003@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00701302044o5172093ay9510e345dc019ce3@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170241839 7235 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2007 11:10:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:10:39 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 31 12:10:15 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HCDLH-0007vf-RZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:09:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B0B101; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:09:16 +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 00326-02-3; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:09:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F64CA; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:09:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FE9CA for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:09:09 +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 00326-02-2 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:09:06 +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 ESMTP id 8AFD2B7 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:09:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 6314 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:09:21 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00701302044o5172093ay9510e345dc019ce3@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:33046 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > Since there are serious problems with XeTeX on non-TeXLive > distributions anyway: why not mess it up properly this time? > > > The attached file seems to work OK, although kpathsea complains a bit > (but these are only warnings - no serious problems; perhaps other > macros could or should be adapted - I didn't dig too much into the > internals): > > kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans12-regular]': contains '[' > kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans10-bold]': contains '[' > kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans12-oblique]': contains '[' > kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmtypewriter12-regular]': contains '[' > kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmtypewriter10-oblique]': contains '[' > > Can someone please take a look? I don't know how well this integrates > with luaTeX. Perhaps the name can be changed from > \definexetexfontsynonym to \defineotffontsynonym or something similar, > so that the underlying code can then differ depending on whether it's > luatex or XeTeX the one which has to access the otf fonts. > > If this or a modified version of it makes it into the core, I would > suggest another (slightly radical) change - to redefine default > encoding to "uc" instead of "ec" for XeTeX (and luatex) before loading > the formats. It would be really great if the default XeTeX settings > would simply work out-of-the-box, contrary to now, when the default > ec-lmr is nearly useless. hm, i'm still wondering why xetex needs the extra [] ; is this somewhere documented? is it something new? why not {} having an extra series of defs for xetex is a bad idea, so i'd rather fix that 'automatically' 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------