Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Do you really a contextname for every adobename in the list?
no, in mkiv we can have use adobe names as well
I would be enough for me access the glyphs by name, I don't a macro for every character but the list for adobenames should be filled with the information from glyphlist.txt.
taht's what char-def is for
Hans, should contextnames.txt be deleted now? So that only one list will be kept up to date.
well, we can keep it for a while for sentimental reasons
XeTeX offers \XeTeXglyphdindex{angleleft} (in LuaTeX you can achieve the same with some coding), but I agree that some high-level macro to access glyphs by name might be handy.
I know XeTeX offers this method but method for XeTeX and LuaTeX would be better, it could be used as replacement for \symbol a many cases, untill you have the requestet glyph in your font but a fallback mode would be nice in this situation.
maybe a big fallback virtual font covering all of unicode ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------