On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:28:37AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:50, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > > > So I don't see a logical reason why one shouldn't be able to > > generate a large tfm with the informations of more characters (and > > luatex is generating large "virtual tfm" with metrics information). > > > > I want to try out if tex4ht can handle such large, unstandard tfm's > > or if it has built-in a hard 256 barrier. > > For normal TFM files tex4ht uses more-or-less-manually-generated files > with mappings between TFM slots and Unicode values. It would be > *waaaaay* easier to convince tex4ht to use UTF-8 encoding directly (if > you know how to patch tex4ht). Just having "fat TFM" won't help you at > all.
Or one can just ditch tex4ht entirely and go with more sane lua based solution like the amazing x(h)ml export work that Hans is doing (it can even export xii.tex ;) ). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab
