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From: Oliver Buerschaper <oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de>
To: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: textext vs. btex ... etex
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:31:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A39236-DE19-46D2-84A2-CC2F71ADAF96@mpq.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C70EEA9.4030906@elvenkind.com>

>> Clearly, this gives me each glyph individually but stacked on top of
>> each other. What I need though is that the second figure looks
>> exactly like the first one (with all glyphs in the right location)
>> except that the grey bounding boxes appear per glyph.
> 
> I know what you want now, but I have no idea how to go about doing
> it via this approach. It could be made to work from the other
> direction (by writing lua code to intercept tex nodes) but that is
> not trivial either.

I see.


> You could use standalone metapost with btex ... etex, that would work.

OK. But then I would lose e.g. OpenType fonts, right?

Oliver
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-24  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17 14:32 Oliver Buerschaper
2010-08-17 15:34 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-18 12:20   ` Oliver Buerschaper
2010-08-18 13:02     ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-18 14:00       ` Oliver Buerschaper
2010-08-18 14:34     ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-21 14:24       ` Oliver Buerschaper
2010-08-21 14:49         ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-22  7:53           ` Oliver Buerschaper
2010-08-22  9:32             ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-24  9:31               ` Oliver Buerschaper [this message]
2010-08-24 10:19                 ` Taco Hoekwater

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