From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39909 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Henning Hraban Ramm" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: analyzing type-otf.tex Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:11:56 +0200 Message-ID: <954f61110804080011s7291fe3dn73cec0dc97088c7f@mail.gmail.com> References: <7F6B54BD-335B-48CA-B5EB-0A5012BB71B9@fiee.net> <6faad9f00804070358y732172bv39fb3e1c5bd738fc@mail.gmail.com> <3967C159-07A5-4DC4-896A-7C6DC9857017@fiee.net> <6faad9f00804071550w63f93e24w7f847695fb0eaabf@mail.gmail.com> <115224fb0804072344h5fb2ecafkf0ab693e263c9cbd@mail.gmail.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 1207638810 17514 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2008 07:13:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 07:13:30 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Apr 08 09:14:02 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 1Jj81p-0006mb-0Q for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:14:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE131FB74; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:13:21 +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 06372-03-7; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:12:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABD21FB29; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:12:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17FC01FB29 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:12:37 +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 07041-01-8 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:11:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9621FADB for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:11:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so2065034wxd.5 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.140.174.11 with SMTP id w11mr51700rve.17.1207638716244; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.141.34.5 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:11:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <115224fb0804072344h5fb2ecafkf0ab693e263c9cbd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7796c862d691f808 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:39909 Archived-At: 2008/4/8, Wolfgang Schuster : > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Mojca Miklavec > wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > Oh? I thought uc encoding would magically enhance my type1 fonts with > > > full unicode range... > > > ;-) > > I almost forgot ... to be honest, I wanted to say: "LuaTeX does > > exactly that", but then I have remembered that you have explicitely > > asked not to mention any LuaTeX benefits to you any more (at least > > until next TeX Live comes out) ... :) > This is indeed possible with LuaTeX because you could create a virtual font > and use any other character from another font with more characters but there > is no font with the complete unicode range, unicode support more signs > as you could use in one OpenType/TrueType font. Please, don't take me dumber than I am. There's a smiley after my naive remark. It's great if luaTeX can access all available glyphs of a font (and that's really another reason to switch), and I guess it will also continue to combine accents and base characters for undefined glyphs, but of course it can't "invent" new glyphs. Most good Type1 fonts contain the range of Latin-1 and Mac-Roman, and if I'll be able to access that, it's great. I already started to combine several freeware fonts into OpenType (i.e. if there are e.g. Western, CE and alternate/expert fonts). But I guess that's only one of my "few" projects that stall until they're needed... Regarding luaTeX: Even if I can just include rsync into my daily update script to stay up-to-date on binaries (thanks for pointing that out!), I get a bad feeling if I see lots of threads on this list that show that luaTeX seems to have still some basic problems... On the other hand when I started using ConTeXt I did it for some features (grid setting!) even though it was a very much moving target. 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