Re: [NTG-context] analyzing type-otf.tex

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

2008/4/8, Wolfgang Schuster :

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Oh? I thought uc encoding would magically enhance my type1 fonts with full unicode range... ;-) I almost forgot ... to be honest, I wanted to say: "LuaTeX does exactly that", but then I have remembered that you have explicitely asked not to mention any LuaTeX benefits to you any more (at least until next TeX Live comes out) ... :) This is indeed possible with LuaTeX because you could create a virtual font and use any other character from another font with more characters but there is no font with the complete unicode range, unicode support more signs as you could use in one OpenType/TrueType font.

Please, don't take me dumber than I am. There's a smiley after my naive remark.

I never meant this :-(

It's great if luaTeX can access all available glyphs of a font (and that's really another reason to switch), and I guess it will also continue to combine accents and base characters for undefined glyphs, but of course it can't "invent" new glyphs.

But you could use them from another font as fallback, not the best idea but possible. And no, you can't access all glyphs from a font, it is easy to to print the vertical forms from CJK punctuation with XeTeX but the LuaTeX output is nonsense.

Most good Type1 fonts contain the range of Latin-1 and Mac-Roman, and if I'll be able to access that, it's great.

I already started to combine several freeware fonts into OpenType (i.e. if there are e.g. Western, CE and alternate/expert fonts). But I guess that's only one of my "few" projects that stall until they're needed...

Regarding luaTeX: Even if I can just include rsync into my daily update script to stay up-to-date on binaries (thanks for pointing that out!), I get a bad feeling if I see lots of threads on this list that show that luaTeX seems to have still some basic problems... On the other hand when I started using ConTeXt I did it for some features (grid setting!) even though it was a very much moving target.

Wolfgang PS: I used your manuals to start with ConTeXt and never thought of you as a dumb user and this wasn't meant to critize you, the only thing I wanted to say it is still possible not not only a joke.