From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Apple Emoji (was: Smileys)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:08:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALBOmsZ6yN_h0ArUSW1eiXgdJ+E2oAimZLDHTg12Ac4Lk0jXwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 09:12, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> Hello Wolfgang,
>
>> Apples new emoji font is also very interesting but you can’t use it with ConTeXt.
>
> Why is that? Is this a ConTeXt or a LuaTeX limitation?
LuaTeX. Actually, it is a limitation of 99.9% of software out there. I
wasn't able to display the font with any single font editor, including
FontForge and XeTeX (maybe XeTeX would work if somebody would port it
to 64-bit and corresponding new Apple libraries).
As far as LuaTeX support is concerned, here was the latest answer:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 20:20, Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> (Hartmut, if you're interested in this funny font thread Mojca can
>> send you the font/test file.)
>
> thanks, but not now, sorry. I'm stuck too deep in the backlogs.
>
> Regards, Hartmut
But even if the font was supported, it might be illegal to use it on
Windows (I'm not sure, I didn't read the licence).
Mojca
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next reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-17 11:08 Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2011-08-17 14:54 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-08-17 15:29 ` Patrick Gundlach
2011-08-17 16:17 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-08-17 22:15 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-08-18 7:09 ` Martin Schröder
2011-08-18 7:31 ` Apple Emoji Hans Hagen
2011-08-18 7:38 ` Hans Hagen
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