From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38469 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: symbols in luatex? Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:32:51 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00801060232t247c4b4etb3dcc873711ac34d@mail.gmail.com> References: <5C1F513E-3C82-4BBB-A80A-0D2CB8D61498@uni-bonn.de> <477E5B93.6080903@wxs.nl> <16693EDC-E897-4EDE-A2E7-084C7BA32B34@uni-bonn.de> <115224fb0801040939x7e64728fq85d13efb08d3b150@mail.gmail.com> <6A7946E9-7A81-4115-A0A3-E6869CCF3D0A@uni-bonn.de> <477E99D7.3030009@wxs.nl> <20080105100341.522b4d1d.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <6faad9f00801050155u5f703672xe8a15b8fb570045a@mail.gmail.com> <20080106101552.43f78ed8.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: ger.gmane.org 1199615607 14279 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 10:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:33:27 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jan 06 11:33:47 2008 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 1JBSp8-000103-Ku for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:33:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B6A1FC66; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:33:15 +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 04357-02; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:33:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27FF1FC14; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:32:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9631FC14 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:32:58 +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 01634-03-4 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:32:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C17A1FC0D for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:32:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m16so14887160waf.14 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:32:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.143.33.19 with SMTP id l19mr5697106wfj.9.1199615571776; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:32:51 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.143.40.7 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:32:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20080106101552.43f78ed8.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:38469 Archived-At: On Jan 6, 2008 10:15 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:55:23 +0100 > > > One thing that you can try is to add > > contextname='angleleft' > > to the corresponding entry in char-def.lua and then use > > \getglyph{name:TeXGyreHeros-Regular}{\angleleft} > > improvements for char-def.lua are welcome anyway. > > Do you really a contextname for every adobename in the list? Of course not. But some addition still do make sense (and if you have some on your wishlist, you can submit patches). > I would be enough for me access the glyphs by name, I don't a macro for > every character but the list for adobenames should be filled with the > information from glyphlist.txt. > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/glyph.html It is (although I could imagine that it might have been filled with an older version of that list, but there are not so many differences anyway). > > Hans, should contextnames.txt be deleted now? So that only one list > > will be kept up to date. > > > > XeTeX offers \XeTeXglyphdindex{angleleft} (in LuaTeX you can achieve > > the same with some coding), but I agree that some high-level macro to > > access glyphs by name might be handy. > > I know XeTeX offers this method but method for XeTeX and LuaTeX would > be better, it could be used as replacement for \symbol a many > cases, untill you have the requestet glyph in your font but a fallback > mode would be nice in this situation. Sure. I have agreed that some macro to get a glyph by name would be handy (and could be supported in both engines easily). 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