From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/62994 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: manipulate ttf-fonts loaded with luatex Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:32:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288215184 4439 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2010 21:33:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:33:04 +0000 (UTC) To: "news3@nililand.de" , mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Oct 27 23:33:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBDcB-0003ne-EN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:32:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F089ACA79D; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:32:58 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id LUGJnQiZPg6I; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:32:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE287CA781; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:32:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1A9CA781 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:32:53 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Yyuqs3OaFVqu for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:32:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter5-ams.mf.surf.net (filter5-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.73]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BE5C9A7C for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:32:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by filter5-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o9RLWmsU015305 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:32:50 +0200 Original-Received: FROM [10.0.2.15] (wpa107156.Wireless.McGill.CA [142.157.107.156]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4CC89A7D.69B74.8371 ; Authuser adityam; 27 Oct 2010 17:32:45 EDT In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.12.86; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0BDnVwN0k - 5c80f53fbb78 - 20101027 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.73 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:62994 Archived-At: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:35:46 -0400 (EDT) schrieb Aditya Mahajan: > >> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Ulrike Fischer wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm currently a bit playing around with the idea to add some support >>> in the (LaTeX) package "chessfss" (which handle chess fonts) for >>> fonts loaded with the luaotfload package. As luaotfload use the >>> context code to load the font I'm hoping that someone here can help >>> me with some of my problems. >>> >>> Chess fonts are highly unstandard. The different authors of the >>> fonts did put the chars quite randomly in the character table and >>> also used various glyphs name. So in the psfonts.map almost every >>> font has its own encoding vector: >> >> What is the unicode support for chess fonts. Are there unicode glyphs for >> each symbol (just like card suits, I guess)? > > There are unicode code points only for a part of the symbols. I checked the unicode list. The codepoints 0x2654 to 0x365F cover all the chess pieces. All the fonts in enpassent.dk and chessfss_gallery.pdf show only these symbols. So what is missing? I am guessing that the problem is not as simple as just mapping a font glyph to the corresponding unicode codepoint. 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