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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

  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
     [not found] ` <op.s1wituiynx1yh1@walayah1.wildblue.com>
     [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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