RE: FYI: encoding issues

2004-11-28 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > If not, what is the motivation for continuing to invest time into both > > TeX and PostScript backends? > > Practically: TeX has more formatting capabilities. Personally, I want > to minimize the amount of time I si

Re: FYI: encoding issues

2004-11-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > IMHO it should be included too. We have plenty of space available... > > Hmmm. We should expand the size of a single brace subfont, > otherwise, we need too many feta-braces-[a-z]-[0-9]*.mf files. Well, it has to look fine :-) > Hmm. I tried to google for sfnt, but without avail. Is SFNT ju

Re: FYI: encoding issues

2004-11-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Some minor clarifications and additions. > > > - dynamics, numbers, modern notes, ancient notes should be merged > > into an OpenType font. > > > > [What about the brace font?] > > IMHO it should be included too. We have plenty of space available... Hmmm. We

RE: FYI: encoding issues

2004-11-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [...] > > * good support for non-western lyrics, > > > > * usable PostScript output > > > > * better support for TeX's text formatting features. > > > > * A cleaner system for reading and processing fonts. > > Please don't answer the following questions if yo

RE: FYI: encoding issues

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Van den Borre
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > As you might know, the support for languages that use non-ASCII glyphs > (both european characters with accents and non-european characters) is > flaky: choices for glyphs are dependent on the -rather limited- TeX EC > font of the. The problem of

Re: FYI: encoding issues

2004-11-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Some minor clarifications and additions. > - dynamics, numbers, modern notes, ancient notes should be merged > into an OpenType font. > > [What about the brace font?] IMHO it should be included too. We have plenty of space available... > - font parameters (staff-space, line thickness,

FYI: encoding issues

2004-11-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Hi all, As you might know, the support for languages that use non-ASCII glyphs (both european characters with accents and non-european characters) is flaky: choices for glyphs are dependent on the -rather limited- TeX EC font of the. The problem of font encoding also bites us in the GNOME backe