Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/2/2018 1:39 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:29:46 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: Can't you check for a free range instead? sure, but then i also loose some functionality in context (unless i gho for ugly solutions) ... as all glyphs are supposed to have a name access by

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:29:46 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: >> Can't you check for a free range instead? > sure, but then i also loose some functionality in context (unless i gho > for ugly solutions) ... as all glyphs are supposed to have a name access > by name is a pretty good alternative Well

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/2/2018 9:29 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Tue, 2 Oct 2018 06:55:02 +0200 schrieb luigi scarso: For what do you reserve the space in the PUA? http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/fonts-mkiv.pdf page 32 of the document : As we already mentioned in a previous chapter, in ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/1/2018 11:11 PM, David Carlisle wrote: If you need to allocate a block for internal use wouldn't it be possible to use one of the high areas Supplementary Private Use Area-A or B (U+F - U+F) (U+10 - U+10) ? The BMP PUA block (U+E000 U+F8FF) just has so many documented

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Tue, 2 Oct 2018 06:55:02 +0200 schrieb luigi scarso: >> For what do you reserve the space in the PUA? > http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/fonts-mkiv.pdf > page 32 of the document : > As we already mentioned in a previous chapter, in ConTeXt we use > Unicode internally. This also

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-01 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 7:56 PM Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > For what do you reserve the space in the PUA? > http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/fonts-mkiv.pdf page 32 of the document : As we already mentioned in a previous chapter, in ConTeXt we use Unicode internally. This also means that

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-01 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/1/2018 7:55 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Mon, 1 Oct 2018 19:29:40 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: \DeclareTextGlyphY{LinBiolinum_K}{uniE18C}{57740} A funny definition ... is that access by name or number? By number, it uses \char at the end to get the glyph. Anyway, for generic (so not

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-01 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Mon, 1 Oct 2018 19:29:40 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: >> \DeclareTextGlyphY{LinBiolinum_K}{uniE18C}{57740} >A funny definition ... is that access by name or number? By number, it uses \char at the end to get the glyph. > Anyway, for generic (so not for context) I can keep these glyphs in the

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-01 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/1/2018 11:42 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Can you tell me when this change happend? Perhaps I can build an older fontloader as a fall back. no, probably a while ago when some other clash in private area use was solved .. i'm not going to mess with the code now as 0xE000-0xEFFF is used

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-01 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 11:43 AM Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > I just got from Claudio Beccari (which seem to have complained to > Luigi) > hm, not a complain, a simple "bug report". I always try to answer directly to Claudio when/if I can, but in this case, if I have understood correctly, you are

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-01 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Mon, 1 Oct 2018 10:20:07 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: > anyway, the problem, with these private areas is that they are also used > by the loader (and context) so in order to avoid clashes we move all > private chars in the font to a dedicated private range This basically means that for every

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-01 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/30/2018 10:08 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: The font Coelacanth (on CTAN) has glyphs in the private area. Between 2/2017 (luaotfload in texlive 2017) and now the storing and accessing of this glyphs has changed. In the lua of the font of 2017 I find e.g. [62860]={