[NTG-context] [OT] Was: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...
. . . 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: 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 ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Was: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...
David Wooten wrote: . . . 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 Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Was: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...
On Dec 19, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: David Wooten wrote: . . . 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 ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
