From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38477 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: symbols in luatex? Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:26:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4781397E.4030203@wxs.nl> References: <5C1F513E-3C82-4BBB-A80A-0D2CB8D61498@uni-bonn.de> <477B78B1.8010804@wxs.nl> <0F6D6146-33BE-4AD0-8EEF-D33D6629E2BB@uni-bonn.de> <477E5B93.6080903@wxs.nl> <16693EDC-E897-4EDE-A2E7-084C7BA32B34@uni-bonn.de> <115224fb0801040939x7e64728fq85d13efb08d3b150@mail.gmail.com> <6A7946E9-7A81-4115-A0A3-E6869CCF3D0A@uni-bonn.de> <477E99D7.3030009@wxs.nl> <20080105100341.522b4d1d.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <6faad9f00801050155u5f703672xe8a15b8fb570045a@mail.gmail.com> <20080106101552.43f78ed8.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.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 1199651255 26186 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 20:27:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:27:35 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jan 06 21:27:56 2008 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 1JBc68-0004zA-0B for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:27:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1861FB77; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:27:31 +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 14456-03-2; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:27:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216DF1FB6D; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:27:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E563A1FB6D for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:27:13 +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 17454-01-6 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:26:40 +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 541E51FB33 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:26:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 3884 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:26:38 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <20080106101552.43f78ed8.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.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:38477 Archived-At: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Do you really a contextname for every adobename in the list? no, in mkiv we can have use adobe names as well > I would be enough for me access the glyphs by name, I don't a macro for > every character but the list for adobenames should be filled with the > information from glyphlist.txt. > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/glyph.html taht's what char-def is for >> Hans, should contextnames.txt be deleted now? So that only one list >> will be kept up to date. well, we can keep it for a while for sentimental reasons >> XeTeX offers \XeTeXglyphdindex{angleleft} (in LuaTeX you can achieve >> the same with some coding), but I agree that some high-level macro to >> access glyphs by name might be handy. > > I know XeTeX offers this method but method for XeTeX and LuaTeX would > be better, it could be used as replacement for \symbol a many > cases, untill you have the requestet glyph in your font but a fallback > mode would be nice in this situation. maybe a big fallback virtual font covering all of unicode ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________