Re: waiting for mswincontext / injecting

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
>> this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very
>> ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose
>> another font for them.
>>
>> The second point is some it often neccesary to choose differents fonts
>> for arabic, greek ... and this method can used to switch to the
>> corresponding font without inserting font switching commands in the
>> text but handle this with character classes.
> 
> I guess that in LuaTeX you can "compose your own font" on the fly. So
> you can say "please take this region from Arial, another region from
> some Greek fonts, and yet another from Chineese, perhaps some more
> characters from somewhere else ... And then you can use a single font
> for everything. (Don't ask me how this can be done, though.)

the code is there, but i need to make a proper user interface in context 
  for which i need some "really deep thoughts"

Hans

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