On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:34:10 +0200
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Version 0.997 of XeTeX introduced a new concept to assign every
character a class value. You can define rules what should happen if you
switch for example from class 1 to class 2 and another
On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very
ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose
another font for them.
The second point is some it often neccesary to choose differents fonts
for arabic, greek ...
I guess that in LuaTeX you can compose your own font on the fly.
That's the virtual fonts Hans mentioned (like a vf in good ol' TeX,
but on the fly, as you say). See section 5.2 of the LuaTeX manual (pp.
70-72 as of September 18th), especially the last one with an example.
Arthur
Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
I guess that in LuaTeX you can compose your own font on the fly.
That's the virtual fonts Hans mentioned (like a vf in good ol' TeX,
but on the fly, as you say). See section 5.2 of the LuaTeX manual (pp.
70-72 as of September 18th), especially the last one with an
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:45:41 -0600, Mojca Miklavec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very
ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose
another font for them.
The second point
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very
ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose
another font for them.
The second point is some it often neccesary to choose differents fonts
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:45:41 -0600, Mojca Miklavec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very
ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose
another font
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:01:16 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's get even more funky: we could define text direction classes such
that switching from LR to RL automatically switches from, say, the latin
group (or cyrillic) to the arabic group (or hebrew), and direction
switching
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Version 0.997 of XeTeX introduced a new concept to assign every
character a class value. You can define rules what should happen if you
switch for example from class 1 to class 2 and another one if you do
the same in reverse order. The commands for this action are
