Re: xetext-pdftex differences

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:44:18 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>   
>> You should try to get "uc" working if possible, but you need to add
>> some definitions from my previous mail. If you want to stick with
>> texnansi, you should better use pdfTeX.
>>     
>
> I have a document with German as the main language, defined ...
>
> \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr]
> \usetypescript[times][texnansi]
> \mainlanguage[de]
> \setupbodyfont[times,10pt] 
>
> .... and inserted Arabic quotes in Arabic AlBayan.ttf, defined  ...
>
> \font\geeza="AlBayan" at 10pt
>
>
> That's why it's typeset with XeTeX. But nevertheless texnansi for TeXGyreTermes seems to be fine (at least for now).
>   
technically one can define a virtual font which uses TeXGyreTermes as base, but has additional glyphs taken from AlBayan; I do have experimental code for that but have to cook up an interface (not that hard, i only need time and motivation); that way you dont't need to switch to geeza in between 

\ctxlua {
    fonts.define.methods.install("weird", {
{ "include-method", "base" } ,
{ "copy-char"     , "lmroman10-regular"     ,     65,     66 } ,              { "copy-range"    , "lmsans10-regular"      , 0x0100, 0x01FF } , 
{ "copy-range"    , "lmtypewriter10-regular", 0x0200, 0xFF00 } ,
{ "fallback-range", "lmtypewriter10-regular", 0x0000, 0x0200 }   
    })
}

\starttext

\startTEXpage

\font\test={myfont@weird}
\test \eacute \rcaron \adoublegrave \char"0200
AB\char65\char65

\stopTEXpage

Along these lines ... but then properly interfaced -) 


Hans 

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