On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:29:43PM +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
It is a bitmap format, a sort of quick and dirty hack by Apple to please certain markets and it shouldn't concern a typesetting system
I think we should leave it up to the users what they think about using a font like this in typesetting. "640k ought to be enough for anybody"…
LuaTeX does not support other more widely used and supported bitmap fonts (not even bitmaps inside SFNT fonts), why this one would be different?
I'd like to have "my" typesetting system to be capable of what users demands and not what I think is good for them.
If one need multicolored fonts there is Type3 (if it is supported) or just a virtual font with PDF specials. AFAIK, emoji is used in Japan in SMS and other chat-like stuff, not something luatex is used for (unless someone is writing a chat client in luatex). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab