At 01:44 PM 12/5/2002 +0100, you wrote:

Quick but nasty question from me:

What do we do when we run out of internal macro names in the hash? There are some 100.000-something chars defined in Unicode 3.2, much more then the available hash space in TeX.

there are several methods: (1) we don't use a hash, just a fast expandable ifcase, so theoretically it's only a few hundred entries (2) optionally (just made it) one can expand such a vector into hashed values, but this is only interestign when one know what one deals with (3) just played with an unicode font, and i can even imagine an auto-split-into ranges and auto fontswitch (kind of fun to try that), i.e.: a call to a glyph expands into a call to fontname-range + char [of course this breaks hyphenation, but for a lot of languages this is not an issue] also, (4) we have Taco to extend tex to 32 bits -) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------