On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>>
>>>> possible yes but it's a lot of work because the complete fallback
>>>> mechanism
>>>> needs to be written for XeTeX which is available for MkIV since a while.
>>>
>>> this is unlikely to happen (unless we add lots of optional code to mkii
>>> to
>>> deal with xetex which then probably results in a lot of other code hooked
>>> into other mechanisms as well) as mkii is kind of frozen
>>>
>>> if we have to port all sophisticated (upcoming) mkiv features back to
>>> mkiv
>>> we might wonder why we started with mkiv in the first place; the whole
>>> idea
>>> is to have less (complex) code
>>
>>
>> not like that complicated (we do not need font fallback).
>>
>> it is only something about:
>>
>> save the current font style (like \ss, \it ,10pt) to a macro . then
>> apply the macro to a group.
>> for example
>>
>> aa { \anotherfont bb}
>> we should save the style for aa when \anotherfont is called, and apply
>> that style to bb.
>>
>> that should be enough. but we don't know how to get the font style.
>
> see \pushcurrentfont

Thank you, I will look into that.

Many thanks:)

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