Re: [NTG-context] New module - mkiv font loading

Yue Wang wrote:

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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possible yes but it's a lot of work because the complete fallback mechanism needs to be written for XeTeX which is available for MkIV since a while. this is unlikely to happen (unless we add lots of optional code to mkii to deal with xetex which then probably results in a lot of other code hooked into other mechanisms as well) as mkii is kind of frozen

if we have to port all sophisticated (upcoming) mkiv features back to mkiv we might wonder why we started with mkiv in the first place; the whole idea is to have less (complex) code

not like that complicated (we do not need font fallback).

it is only something about:

save the current font style (like \ss, \it ,10pt) to a macro . then apply the macro to a group. for example

aa { \anotherfont bb} we should save the style for aa when \anotherfont is called, and apply that style to bb.

that should be enough. but we don't know how to get the font style.

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