On 2012-06-15 at 22:41:15 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > My *wish* would be (at least) one independant/self contained font > > loader which can (and at best is) be used with all formats. > > a basic font loader that understands all formats (type1, otf, ttf) > is rather easy to implement. But that would only handle l-t-r texts > without complex substitution.
Well, the expression "can be used with all formats" can also mean that macros are written in plain TeX and can be used with LaTeX and ConTeXt too. This would be great and it's how pgf/TikZ works. Maybe such an approach is feasible when most of the code is written in Lua anyway. IMO the concept of pgf/TikZ is perfect. There are low-level macros and interfaces for plain TeX, LaTeX, and ConTeXt. And there are drivers for various output formats (dvi, pdf, svg). Assumed that ConTeXt is very close to plain TeX, did anybody investigate whether it's possible to write a LaTeX wrapper in order to use Hans' ConTeXt macros with LaTeX? This would save human resources, at least. What I've in mind is something like miniltx.tex which makes LaTeX macros available to plain TeX. Nevertheless, many thanks to Khaled for all the great work. It's sad that luaotfload isn't supported anymore but the decision is understandable though. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
