From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38506 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: symbols in luatex? Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:21:11 +0100 Message-ID: <47833277.30903@wxs.nl> References: <5C1F513E-3C82-4BBB-A80A-0D2CB8D61498@uni-bonn.de> <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> <4781397E.4030203@wxs.nl> <115224fb0801070818q4311e846t48ceac0cd7994cc3@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00801071630g3cedc285p8da3cd1935bb0a04@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 1199780565 23343 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2008 08:22:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:22:45 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jan 08 09:23:05 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 1JC9jl-0004qZ-1X for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:23:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC04C1FBD0; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:22:40 +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 04878-01-2; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:22:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6971FB7E; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:21:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F7D1FB5A for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:21:53 +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 27866-05-3 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:21:19 +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 98E981FB38 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:21:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 4040 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:21:19 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00801071630g3cedc285p8da3cd1935bb0a04@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:38506 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 5:18 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> On Jan 6, 2008 9:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: >> >>> maybe a big fallback virtual font covering all of unicode ... >> With Arial Unicode as fallback ;-) > > I can try to get some Microsofties* to the meeting. Perhaps they'll agree :-) :p actually the typography part of ms is not that bad -) also, if i'm right all linux distributions permit you to download/install fonts from ms (someow these fonts are free); not sure about osx > After all, if I forget about all the advantages of it (covering > unicode symbols where typeface doesn't matter so much etc.), the > approach would be fully compatible with Word in that respect, > replacing all accented letters with the ones from the fallback font > :-) well, you may as well expect worse in the tex community ... font feature abuse and such > But after all: there's LinLibertine or the (symbol) Unicode font that > one of you has mantioned a few days ago. yes, those fonts are very complete; i wonder if they may be distributed with tex ... 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