From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: waiting for mswincontext / injecting
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:01:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F6C60C.6010205@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.ty4c5t19nx1yh1@your-b27fb1c401>
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:45:41 -0600, Mojca Miklavec
> <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> 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.)
>
> Let's get even more funky: we could define "text direction classes" such
> that switching from LR to RL automatically switches from, say, the latin
> group (or cyrillic) to the arabic group (or hebrew), and direction
> switching could be done using the appropriate unicode characters instead
> of control sequences (ie, unicode direction charaters should be made
> active).
didn't i send you the code for that trick a while ago?
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1.1190023202.9795.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2007-09-17 14:30 ` Recommendations for Speed? Duncan Hothersall
2007-09-18 20:33 ` waiting for mswincontext Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-09-19 7:46 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-19 14:25 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-09-19 16:33 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-09-19 17:08 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-09-19 18:02 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-19 17:24 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-09-19 14:40 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-09-19 14:45 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-09-19 17:13 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-09-20 7:01 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-09-19 17:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-09-19 19:19 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-09-19 19:53 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-19 22:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-09-19 23:22 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-09-20 7:06 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-09-20 7:47 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-20 17:24 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-09-20 19:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-09-20 7:36 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-20 7:37 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-19 17:26 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-09-19 17:54 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-19 14:45 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-19 17:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-09-19 18:00 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-19 18:31 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-09-19 19:19 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-20 6:59 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-09-20 13:18 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-09-20 18:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-09-20 20:21 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-09-20 20:41 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-21 7:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-09-21 12:40 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-21 18:15 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-09-22 10:34 ` waiting for mswincontext / injecting Hans Hagen
2007-09-23 11:52 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-09-23 17:45 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-09-23 17:49 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-09-23 18:00 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-23 18:18 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-09-23 20:01 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2007-09-23 20:19 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-09-23 18:24 ` Hans Hagen
2007-09-19 16:14 ` waiting for mswincontext Joel C. Salomon
2007-09-19 16:58 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] ` <6faad9f00709190257x35bd3495p1a5ee0de51f2a150@mail.gmail.com>
2007-09-19 15:00 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
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