> On 16 May 2016, at 18:56, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I do not advocate changing that, but these legacy *TeX variants have their > own builtin sets of supported fonts with their implicit style and use them > with the normal letters, just like what is done in HTML when you apply an > italic style. Has these *TeX variants exist this way they don't need these > additions that will be needed only on newer *TeX variants that will not use > explicit font variants in their encoding, but directly new distinguished code > points (without explicit font style tagging).
The ConTeXt macro package default engine is LuaTeX, which uses UTF-8 for text files and UTF-32 internally, and combines the effort of several of those other, older versions. Then one can use the STIX fonts (or XITS) which are Unicode.
