But wait, where are you coming from? Are your source fonts really Minion .pfbs, or are they from OpenType? With OpenType, you can use some nice TeXFont stuff to select the features (OSF, SC, alternates) without having to draw from two arbitrary encodings.
I am very interested in the Open Type trickery. I have been wrestling for quite some time about the problem of multiple accents over ligatures in Arabic. I can do it in Aleph but the present procedure (due originally to Yannis) is much too slow and cumbersome, especially when dealing with huge fonts (my present virtual ovf has about 10,000 characters!). I finally found a solution that OpenType might help with--multiple glyphs for one character. I can implement this without OpenType, but OpenType opens the possiblity for word searches in Acrobat of Arabic text, something that is well-nigh impossible with the usual pfb approach.
While we will still need huge fonts, the processing of complicated accents should be much faster with the approach I have in mind (smaller otp's and ovf's). Do you think TeXFont can be tweaked to generate ovf's and ofm's as well?
Take care Idris
-- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
