Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now
Hello Paul, Thanks a lot for help with Xetex+Context on Windows. And by the way, what is the "uc" encoding? It is not mentioned on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes -- With best regards Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
On 4/13/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Hello Paul,
Thanks a lot for help with Xetex+Context on Windows.
And by the way, what is the "uc" encoding? It is not mentioned on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes
That page should be improved. "uc" stands for Unicode. It might be that it will become the default encoding for XeTeX in future anyway (so that it will be possible to drop the explicit usage). "uc" is the only encoding that makes sense in XeTeX since no other (except texnansi by a pure chance) is supported there. And you cannot use "uc" encoding in 8bit TeX (pdfTeX). Btw: \enableregime[utf-8] is ignored in XeTeX: utf-8 is already the default input regime. Perhaps it might make sense to support other 8-bit regimes (it's only one or two lines of modifications), but well ... the purpose of XeTeX is too head towards future, not to look back into the past mess of encodings. Mojca
Hello Mojca, Thanks a lot. In other words, XeTeX handles Unicode-coded fonts and the author creates UTF-coded documents. Then those encodings are merged somewhere inside. Do I think right?
On 4/13/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Hello Paul,
Thanks a lot for help with Xetex+Context on Windows.
And by the way, what is the "uc" encoding? It is not mentioned on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes
That page should be improved. "uc" stands for Unicode. It might be that it will become the default encoding for XeTeX in future anyway (so that it will be possible to drop the explicit usage). "uc" is the only encoding that makes sense in XeTeX since no other (except texnansi by a pure chance) is supported there. And you cannot use "uc" encoding in 8bit TeX (pdfTeX).
Btw: \enableregime[utf-8] is ignored in XeTeX: utf-8 is already the default input regime.
Perhaps it might make sense to support other 8-bit regimes (it's only one or two lines of modifications), but well ... the purpose of XeTeX is too head towards future, not to look back into the past mess of encodings.
Mojca
-- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
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