>this system is ...
>a kind of obsolete mechanism now that we have mkiv

Excuse me my ignorance...

What mkiv feature/mechanism replaces the obsolete one ?

Best,
Alan

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
Alan Stone wrote:
> Hi,
>
> re: http://source.contextgarden.net/symb-uni.tex
>
> What does, for example,
>
> "0x2000: Requires UnicodeRegular20" mean in
> \startsymbolset[Unicode Additional Punctuation] % 0x2000: Requires
> UnicodeRegular20
>
> in the context of
>
> \usesymbols[uni]
> \def\mySymbol{\symbol[Unicode Additional Punctuation][*symbolname*]}

this system is based on big ttf files split into pfb ranges where 20
indicates a range (so, the font with symbolicname UnicodeRegular might
have many split fonts)

a kind of obsolete mechanism now that we have mkiv

Hans