From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37818 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: showfont with xetex (syntax changed?) Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:07:18 +0100 Message-ID: <475999E6.2010007@wxs.nl> References: <91844FC2-0148-4347-A206-4B22915EBDE3@st.estfiles.de> <6faad9f00712060332s32be7922yf9b7e7788b4197f4@mail.gmail.com> <115224fb0712060623x55694bdbgedabbcbf9d5925e0@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: ger.gmane.org 1197054583 334 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2007 19:09:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 19:09:43 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 07 20:09:54 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 1J0ia2-000448-WC for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:09:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE32D1FB74; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:09:29 +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 20998-03; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:08:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA5B1FB33; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:08:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889A41FB1D for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:08:46 +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 23276-01-7 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:08:09 +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 B3ED71FA2D for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:08:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 101 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:08:05 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <115224fb0712060623x55694bdbgedabbcbf9d5925e0@mail.gmail.com> 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:37818 Archived-At: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > And even worse both engines have their own default values for fonts. add to that -- they may implement feature support differently -- fonts have bugs in lookup rules (obscured by processing engines) -- we may want to control aspects of features -- we may invent our own features (fea files) ater all, open type has hardly any good reference documentation, bugs and unclear specs may dictate wrong behaviour in persistent manners (as with html and browsers),font designers have to think like programmers which may not be their stringest point, ... although font installation becomes way easier in tex, it does mean that all our problems are solved 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________