From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10028 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: utf (8) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 14:21:14 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021205141709.0255e4f0@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20021205115701.031a8dd0@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20021205115701.031a8dd0@server-1> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039094567 7474 80.91.224.249 (5 Dec 2002 13:22:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 13:22:47 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Jvxl-0001wI-00 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 14:22:45 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C76310AE8; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:22:45 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F2110AE7 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:21:20 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-ade.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB5EE6bU026089 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:14:06 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-ade.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gB5DLHgg020972 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:21:17 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20021205134414.261f8cb4.taco@elvenkind.com> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:10028 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10028 At 01:44 PM 12/5/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Quick but nasty question from me: > >What do we do when we run out of internal macro names in the hash? >There are some 100.000-something chars defined in Unicode 3.2, much >more then the available hash space in TeX. there are several methods: (1) we don't use a hash, just a fast expandable ifcase, so theoretically it's only a few hundred entries (2) optionally (just made it) one can expand such a vector into hashed values, but this is only interestign when one know what one deals with (3) just played with an unicode font, and i can even imagine an auto-split-into ranges and auto fontswitch (kind of fun to try that), i.e.: a call to a glyph expands into a call to fontname-range + char [of course this breaks hyphenation, but for a lot of languages this is not an issue] also, (4) we have Taco to extend tex to 32 bits -) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------