Re: analyzing type-otf.tex

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello Hraban,
> 
> thanks for pointing this out.
> 
> To Hans: the \typescriptthree indeed needs to go out of those
> definitions (line 300 in type-otf).

hm, can you post the line? i have this

\starttypescript [serif] [adventor,bonum,cursor,heros,pagella,schola,termes]

> To Hraban: encoding=uc has *zero* effect. To be honest - I doubt that
> you will be able to extract any more than (theoretical limit of) 256
> glyphs from the Type1 font with XeTeX - character slots and font
> glyphs are in one-to-one correlation, so I doubt that you can access
> the glyphs outside of those 256 slots (unless you make tfm & map
> files, but that's probably the reason why one wants to use XeTeX - to
> get rid of that encoding mess). So: I guess that Latin-1 works, but
> encoding=uc is ignored anyway.

in mkiv no encodings are used, although when an encoding is specicified, 
some trickery takes place, for instance: texnansi-whatever becomes 
whatever and so, i.e. the encoding is removed and internally fonts are 
remapped onto unicode.

> type-xtx contains quite some "uc" leftovers, but I'm not sure if
> "fixing" them is a wise idea or not (backward compatibility).

i dunno either ... this may date from the time that not that many open 
type fonts were around, so we may consider dropping it (i.e. we kind of 
assume that xetex users use open type)

Hans

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