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 >> for arabic, greek ... and this method can used to switch to the >> corresponding font without inserting font switching commands in the >> text but handle this with character classes. > > I guess that in LuaTeX you can "compose your own font" on the fly. So > you can say "please take this region from Arial, another region from > some Greek fonts, and yet another from Chineese, perhaps some more > characters from somewhere else ... And then you can use a single font > for everything. (Don't ask me how this can be done, though.)
the code is there, but i need to make a proper user interface in context for which i need some "really deep thoughts" Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________