From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36727 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: waiting for mswincontext / injecting Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:45:41 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00709231045w4f008f40iddcae55b44ef13dc@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00709200618h1077af37q4abb381040e98afb@mail.gmail.com> <20070920202228.571ed808.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <6faad9f00709201321p6f7f397cu99401d29578d494e@mail.gmail.com> <46F2DAE4.4030601@wxs.nl> <20070921093738.72d4ab06.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <46F3BBC1.2030102@wxs.nl> <20070921201551.9fffa564.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <46F4EFA2.7010300@wxs.nl> <20070923135205.e1b8d8db.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> 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 1190569579 16420 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2007 17:46:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:46:19 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 23 19:46:14 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 1IZVX3-0006A4-EU for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:46:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454662013B; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:46:08 +0200 (CEST) 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 14068-02; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:45:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19D320008; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:45:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3508920008 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:45:50 +0200 (CEST) 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 13446-03-2 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:45:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.187]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF0D20002 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:45:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k15so1115366rvb for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.156.13 with SMTP id d13mr39264wfe.1190569541539; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.87.14 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:45:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070923135205.e1b8d8db.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:36727 Archived-At: On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very > ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose > another font for them. > > The second point is some it often neccesary to choose differents fonts > for arabic, greek ... and this method can used to switch to the > corresponding font without inserting font switching commands in the > text but handle this with character classes. I guess that in LuaTeX you can "compose your own font" on the fly. So you can say "please take this region from Arial, another region from some Greek fonts, and yet another from Chineese, perhaps some more characters from somewhere else ... And then you can use a single font for everything. (Don't ask me how this can be done, though.) Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________