From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/33057 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 20:12:59 +0100 Message-ID: <45C0EA3B.1020703@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00701302044o5172093ay9510e345dc019ce3@mail.gmail.com> <45C078E0.8080003@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00701310858q5c2792aft3774199f01a33af1@mail.gmail.com> <7E5493F1-197C-484E-92FB-7A48552BA85E@sil.org> 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 1170270856 27523 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2007 19:14:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mojca Miklavec To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 31 20:13:58 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 1HCKtM-0007u5-W2 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:13:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D1815B; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:12:55 +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 07005-04-6; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:12:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC6AC9; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:12:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878EFC9 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:12:47 +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 07005-04-5 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:12:44 +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 A5F3539 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:12:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 6424 for multiple; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:13:00 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: <7E5493F1-197C-484E-92FB-7A48552BA85E@sil.org> 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:33057 Archived-At: Jonathan Kew wrote: > > Font names and font filenames are quite different, in many cases, and > it didn't seem wise to mix them up and allow the exact same form of > the \font declaration to access either one. This could lead to > ambiguity and confusion in the case where a filename does happen to > be the same as a font name. > > As for why square brackets.... why not? :) We just needed a way to > distinguish filenames from font names, and this seemed a reasonably > safe choice -- unlikely to be present in a real font name, and not > usually given special treatment in TeX. > hm, but square brackets can interfere with optional args where [] don't nest well (tex does not treat them as delimiters as it does {} using {} would probably have been safer or maybe () (round ones) since afaik these are seldom used for delimiting args; or maybe just file:somename anyhow, if it's filename stuff i can probably just feed the [] deep down in context to the xetex font command will think of something please forward to jonathan since his mailer an dmy mail server don;t like each other -) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------