From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24491 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wooten Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: [OT] Was: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings... Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:35:56 -0800 Message-ID: <713E77CB-3121-45D9-BEDA-81DE4F11763F@trichotomic.net> References: <1134825201.43a40ef110463@diogel.enst-bretagne.fr> <43A56F3F.7050506@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135013922 11960 80.91.229.2 (19 Dec 2005 17:38:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:38:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Dec 19 18:38:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoOvj-0001Cj-5d for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:36:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D974312823; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:36:10 +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 25608-01-5; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:36:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E91D12802; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:36:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17C612802 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:36:05 +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 25608-01-4 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:36:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailfarm.berkeley.edu (mailfarm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.61.106]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E05127FD for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:36:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from adsl-69-106-41-125.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([69.106.41.125] helo=[192.168.2.7]) by calmail-fe5.berkeley.edu with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.60) (auth plain:wooten@berkeley.edu) (envelope-from ) id 1EoOva-0007i5-JH for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:36:03 -0800 In-Reply-To: <43A56F3F.7050506@wxs.nl> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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:24491 Archived-At: . . . 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