From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36736 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: waiting for mswincontext / injecting Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:01:16 +0200 Message-ID: <46F6C60C.6010205@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00709200618h1077af37q4abb381040e98afb@mail.gmail.com> <20070920202228.571ed808.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <6faad9f00709201321p6f7f397cu99401d29578d494e@mail.gmail.com> <46F2DAE4.4030601@wxs.nl> <20070921093738.72d4ab06.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <46F3BBC1.2030102@wxs.nl> <20070921201551.9fffa564.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <46F4EFA2.7010300@wxs.nl> <20070923135205.e1b8d8db.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <6faad9f00709231045w4f008f40iddcae55b44ef13dc@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 1190577989 9358 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2007 20:06:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:06:29 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 23 22:06:22 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 1IZXiX-0007vi-Fs for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:06:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F323320310; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:06:10 +0200 (CEST) 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 31275-01; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:06:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C83202E6; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:01:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E33202E6 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:01:22 +0200 (CEST) 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 30891-03-3 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:01:19 +0200 (CEST) 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 D90F42026A for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:01:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 15523 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:01:18 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: 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: 2.1.9 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:36736 Archived-At: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:45:41 -0600, 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.) > > 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? ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________