On 2012-02-22 at 13:40:44 +0100, Ingo Krabbe wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:39:44AM +0100, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > Am Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:09:58 +0100 schrieb Ingo Krabbe: > > > > > Ok, my further problem is, that I use the font-change package too, to > > > use the set of fonts from there, that map to pfb encoded fonts, of > > > course as they are formerly used with plain TeX. > > > > > > Isn't there a way to keep that fonts for my documents, that I don't need > > > to change the font sets and the visual output of the result? > > > > In theory yes, but it is not advisable. Beside the fact that you > > would have to make a lot of non-ascii input chars (like ß or €) > > active to map them to the correct positions in your fonts you could > > also get wrong hyphenations (the patterns assume unicode). > > > > If you want to switch to luatex you should also switch with the text > > fonts to open type fonts using unicode (math and symbols are a > > different matter, there the old type 1 fonts can still be used). > > > > Yes, I understood this relationship now and consider this topic fixed. > The unicode math handling by the way, isn't quite clear to me yet, but > it works well with the old font mapping. > > On the other hand I detected, that using unicode math, might drastically > reduce the size of the generated document. > > Do you have some hints and to-be-reads to get started with unicode math > and plain TeX? > > Please don't point me to latex techniques, such as unicode-math.sty. I > decided to render latex as useless, years ago and I'm still convinced of > my decision (not to be discussed).
If you insist on plain TeX whereas a particular problem is already solved in LaTeX, why don't you simply look into the sources? You can also look into the ConTeXt sources, ConTeXt is probably a little bit closer to plain TeX. 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
