On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:16:31 -0700, Hans Hagen wrote:

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In the short run, for Aleph's purposes, these declarations and much/most/all of the metainfo can be treated as "suggestions" for the otp designer to consider in implementing things. There is no need to treat them as something "holy".

in the near future pdftex will provide open type as well as hooks for input processing using lua, so you may as well end up rewriting your otp's in a more friendly language

At the risk of getting off topic: I know nothing about lua-) What makes it such a great tool? Why not just use, e.g., Ruby (less languages for me to learn->)? But you are quite right: the otp language is a real bear... Best Idris -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

. . . Just out of curiosity, Hans, does this mean that pdftex will (in the near future;) natively support OpenType fonts, namely without having to go through all the TeX font installation trickery? Dave On Dec 18, 2005, at 6:16 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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In the short run, for Aleph's purposes, these declarations and much/most/all of the metainfo can be treated as "suggestions" for the otp designer to consider in implementing things. There is no need to treat them as something "holy".

in the near future pdftex will provide open type as well as hooks for input processing using lua, so you may as well end up rewriting your otp's in a more friendly language

Hans

On Dec 19, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

David Wooten wrote:

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. . . Just out of curiosity, Hans, does this mean that pdftex will (in the near future;) natively support OpenType fonts, namely without having to go through all the TeX font installation trickery?

that's the idea; of course we need some tex specific things because we want to do more than open type supports, but in any case live should become more easy

That is indeed excellent news. David