From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/70750 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Apple Emoji Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:32 +0200 Message-ID: <4E4CC178.1080700@wxs.nl> References: <20110817145414.GD11986@khaled-laptop> <252E49DC-1D1B-4196-A54C-3F33F3BDF06C@gundla.ch> <20110817161736.GA12475@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313653137 4330 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2011 07:38:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mojca Miklavec To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 18 09:38:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QtxBk-0002w2-S6 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431A4CAEFD; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id YTK2Vor1zCw7; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAEBCAEF7; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11DECAEF7 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Mu1koXF3NbRi for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A9DCAECE for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p7I7cZMj015679 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:36 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.2a) with ESMTP id 139-1713362 for multiple; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 05FlHCzhK - 8243c86a2368 - 20110818 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:70750 Archived-At: On 18-8-2011 12:15, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 18:17, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:29:43PM +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to have "my" typesetting system to be capable of what users >>> demands and not what I think is good for them. > > If you have a typesetting system, you can still extract all the PNG > images out of the font and replace some unicode letters with > corresponding \externalfigure[...]. You would probably violate the > licence, but you would get the desired result :) it's a route that i usually want to avoid (apart from the fact that fonts bound to platforms are a bad idea) >> If one need multicolored fonts there is Type3 (if it is supported) or >> just a virtual font with PDF specials. AFAIK, emoji is used in Japan in >> SMS and other chat-like stuff, not something luatex is used for (unless >> someone is writing a chat client in luatex). > > The font has some nice images that could be used for whatever other > reason, not just SMS. > > If you need to quickly find a picture of women with bunny ears for > party invitation for example ... > > But joke aside. Even if you need a nice symbol set for horoscope in > the magazine, the font (the symbols, actually) might be handy. as we noticed when we looked into it a while ago, it is not even included as real font in pdf, such a thingie becomes an inline bitmap (or xform reference) with an invisible character on top (or below) which means that one can as well use png's directly ... it's only a font because that way the bunch get collected in one place Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________