From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/33054 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XeTeX and OpenType LM Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:58:04 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00701310858q5c2792aft3774199f01a33af1@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00701302044o5172093ay9510e345dc019ce3@mail.gmail.com> <45C078E0.8080003@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170262752 25545 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2007 16:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:59:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jonathan Kew To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 31 17:58:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HCImt-0007M5-2b for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:58:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8A2144; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:58:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17692-01-20; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:57:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897BF134; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:57:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6204133 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:57:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17692-01-19 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:57:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67289134 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:57:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d33so132603and for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:58:08 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.49.64.18 with SMTP id r18mr2760691nfk.1170262685109; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:58:05 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.209.2 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:58:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <45C078E0.8080003@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:33054 Archived-At: On 1/31/07, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Since there are serious problems with XeTeX on non-TeXLive > > distributions anyway: why not mess it up properly this time? > > > > > > The attached file seems to work OK, although kpathsea complains a bit > > (but these are only warnings - no serious problems; perhaps other > > macros could or should be adapted - I didn't dig too much into the > > internals): > > > > kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans12-regular]': contains '[' > > kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans10-bold]': contains '[' > > kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans12-oblique]': contains '[' > > kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmtypewriter12-regular]': contains '[' > > kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmtypewriter10-oblique]': contains '[' > > > > Can someone please take a look? I don't know how well this integrates > > with luaTeX. Perhaps the name can be changed from > > \definexetexfontsynonym to \defineotffontsynonym or something similar, > > so that the underlying code can then differ depending on whether it's > > luatex or XeTeX the one which has to access the otf fonts. > > > > If this or a modified version of it makes it into the core, I would > > suggest another (slightly radical) change - to redefine default > > encoding to "uc" instead of "ec" for XeTeX (and luatex) before loading > > the formats. It would be really great if the default XeTeX settings > > would simply work out-of-the-box, contrary to now, when the default > > ec-lmr is nearly useless. > hm, i'm still wondering why xetex needs the extra [] ; is this somewhere documented? is it something new? why not {} > > having an extra series of defs for xetex is a bad idea, so i'd rather fix that 'automatically' Using OpenType fonts from the TeX tree has been implemented in the second half of 2006 (I was probably among those who requested that feature). The only documentation I know of are "release notes". I guess that only Jonathan can answer your question. Mojca