From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36730 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: waiting for mswincontext / injecting Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:18:55 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <6faad9f00709200618h1077af37q4abb381040e98afb@mail.gmail.com> <20070920202228.571ed808.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <6faad9f00709201321p6f7f397cu99401d29578d494e@mail.gmail.com> <46F2DAE4.4030601@wxs.nl> <20070921093738.72d4ab06.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <46F3BBC1.2030102@wxs.nl> <20070921201551.9fffa564.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <46F4EFA2.7010300@wxs.nl> <20070923135205.e1b8d8db.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <6faad9f00709231045w4f008f40iddcae55b44ef13dc@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: sea.gmane.org 1190571541 22150 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2007 18:19:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:19:01 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 23 20:18:56 2007 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 1IZW2g-0008WH-J9 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:18:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5499A201A1; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:18:51 +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 21229-01-8; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:18:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E86220191; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:18:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE8C20191 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:18:36 +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 21229-01-7 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:18:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id C66061FF7E for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:18:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 8913 invoked by uid 1006); 23 Sep 2007 18:18:28 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. 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Processed in 0.915055 secs); 23 Sep 2007 18:18:28 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.4) by -v with SMTP; 23 Sep 2007 18:18:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13924 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2007 18:18:25 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO your-b27fb1c401) (75.104.82.83) by -v with SMTP; 23 Sep 2007 18:18:25 -0000 In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00709231045w4f008f40iddcae55b44ef13dc@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.20 (Win32) 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:36730 Archived-At: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:45:41 -0600, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very >> ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose >> another font for them. >> >> The second point is some it often neccesary to choose differents fonts >> for arabic, greek ... and this method can used to switch to the >> corresponding font without inserting font switching commands in the >> text but handle this with character classes. > > I guess that in LuaTeX you can "compose your own font" on the fly. So > you can say "please take this region from Arial, another region from > some Greek fonts, and yet another from Chineese, perhaps some more > characters from somewhere else ... And then you can use a single font > for everything. (Don't ask me how this can be done, though.) Let's get even more funky: we could define "text direction classes" such that switching from LR to RL automatically switches from, say, the latin group (or cyrillic) to the arabic group (or hebrew), and direction switching could be done using the appropriate unicode characters instead of control sequences (ie, unicode direction charaters should be made active). Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________