From: David Wooten <dw@trichotomic.net>
Subject: [OT] Was: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:35:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <713E77CB-3121-45D9-BEDA-81DE4F11763F@trichotomic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43A56F3F.7050506@wxs.nl>
. . . Just out of curiosity, Hans, does this mean that pdftex will
(in the near future;) natively support OpenType fonts, namely without
having to go through all the TeX font installation trickery?
Dave
On Dec 18, 2005, at 6:16 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>
>> In the short run, for Aleph's purposes, these declarations and
>> much/most/all of the metainfo can be treated as "suggestions" for
>> the otp designer to consider in implementing things. There is no
>> need to treat them as something "holy".
>
> in the near future pdftex will provide open type as well as hooks
> for input processing using lua, so you may as well end up rewriting
> your otp's in a more friendly language
>
> Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-19 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-16 22:21 OpenType fonts Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-12-17 9:58 ` Taco Hoekwater
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[not found] ` <op.s1wjhmttnx1yh1@walayah1.wildblue.com>
[not found] ` <1134825201.43a40ef110463@diogel.enst-bretagne.fr>
2005-12-17 17:50 ` [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-12-18 14:16 ` Hans Hagen
2005-12-18 16:32 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-12-18 20:07 ` Hans Hagen
2005-12-19 17:35 ` David Wooten [this message]
2005-12-19 19:58 ` [OT] Was: " Hans Hagen
2005-12-19 20:08 ` David Wooten
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