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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Script to automatically generate typescripts
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:33:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C0946F7.8010506@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C092512.8010200@uni-ulm.de>

On 4-6-2010 6:08, Michael Murphy wrote:
> On 04/06/2010 12:00, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:52, Michael Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm also starting to
>>> think that it might be possible to use otfinfo from the lcdf
>>> typetools to
>>> get information about a font
>>
>> Just note: you can get an enormous amount of font information with
>> luatex.
>>
>
> If you can get so much information out of LuaTeX, why do we need
> typescripts in the first place?

because it's the only watertight way; other approaches use heuristics

it all depends on the situation

Hans

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-04 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-03 16:51 Michael Murphy
2010-06-04  7:32 ` luigi scarso
2010-06-04  8:03   ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-06-04  8:23     ` luigi scarso
2010-06-04 10:27       ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-04  8:37     ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-04  8:50       ` luigi scarso
2010-06-04  9:52         ` Michael Murphy
2010-06-04 10:00           ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-06-04 10:08             ` luigi scarso
2010-06-04 16:08             ` Michael Murphy
2010-06-04 16:19               ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-06-04 18:33               ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2010-06-04 10:01           ` luigi scarso
2010-06-04 10:21           ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-06-04 10:25             ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-04 10:29             ` luigi scarso
2010-06-04 11:16               ` Khaled Hosny
2010-06-04 16:05                 ` Michael Murphy
2010-06-04 14:12           ` Vnpenguin
2010-06-07 10:59 ` Thomas Floeren
     [not found] <mailman.1395.1275590320.4277.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2010-06-03 21:33 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2010-06-03 22:40   ` Michael Murphy
     [not found] <mailman.1411.1275638618.4277.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2010-06-04  9:26 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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