Re: font encodings (was: palatino fonts)

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

>> With curiosity, does your typescripts for Gentium support T5  
>> encoding ? :)
>> We use Gentium ok for Vietnamese utf-8 here (Openoffice,  
>> Abiword,....)
>> and it will be nice if you could provide vietnamese support ... :)
>
> My type scripts always use \defaultencoding - that's not always the  
> best,
> but mostly... (One could use a list of appropriate encodings instead.)
>
> I don't yet provide support files for t5 encoding, only ex,  
> texnansi and qx.
> But it would be no problem to make them for Gentium (and other  
> fonts that
> contain the glyphs).
>
> But I must think about a better structure of my fonts list before...
> (http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4)

Ok, Gentium is now online including t5 encoding. (That's not yet  
mentioned on the page.)

Now, Gentium also contains Greek glyphs, and some other fonts contain  
Cyrillic.
Which encoding should I provide for these scripts? (Only one for  
each, if possible!)

Is there any way how I could automatically detect, how much of some  
encoding a font covers?
E.g. check a font (TTF, OTF, AFM?) against texnansi, ec, qx, t5,  
t2a... and make the files for it if most of the slots could be filled.

Something completely different: I'm looking for an idea how I could  
automatically create a small font preview (one line) as a bitmap.

Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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