Re: New module - mkiv font loading

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Yue Wang wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>>> possible yes but it's a lot of work because the complete fallback
>>> mechanism
>>> needs to be written for XeTeX which is available for MkIV since a while.
>> this is unlikely to happen (unless we add lots of optional code to mkii to
>> deal with xetex which then probably results in a lot of other code hooked
>> into other mechanisms as well) as mkii is kind of frozen
>>
>> if we have to port all sophisticated (upcoming) mkiv features back to mkiv
>> we might wonder why we started with mkiv in the first place; the whole idea
>> is to have less (complex) code
> 
> 
> not like that complicated (we do not need font fallback).
> 
> it is only something about:
> 
> save the current font style (like \ss, \it ,10pt) to a macro . then
> apply the macro to a group.
> for example
> 
> aa { \anotherfont bb}
> we should save the style for aa when \anotherfont is called, and apply
> that style to bb.
> 
> that should be enough. but we don't know how to get the font style.

see \pushcurrentfont

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