>
> I understand you're concerned about future font support in LuaTeX, but
> technically the engine is little more than an extendable PDFTeX. Fonts
> follow that philosophy: TFM (with mapping to T1) fonts are supported
> as in PDFTeX, other formats must be loaded and processed by hand. Whether
> i
Am Tue, 7 Aug 2012 08:51:41 +0200 schrieb Paul Isambert:
But there are also political issues: LuaTeX is developed by a
team focusing on ConTeXt. LaTeX users will always be neglected,
at least that is the feeling I have (Taco is very kind and
helpful but he is paid for a speci
Hi Apostolos, Ulrike, All,
I agree TFMs are outdated, but for being backwards compatible the functionality
has to be in there.
From what I have so far understood about LuaTeX is that the font loader can
handle
about all types of fonts running around, today. Even AAT-fonts.
In other words there
2012/8/7 Keith J. Schultz :
> Hi Apostolos, Ulrike, All,
>
> I agree TFMs are outdated, but for being backwards compatible the
> functionality
> has to be in there.
>
> From what I have so far understood about LuaTeX is that the font loader can
> handle
> about all types of fonts running around, to
Am Tue, 7 Aug 2012 00:06:23 -0700 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos:
> Using TFMs and related technologies seems to me quite outdated.
No, it is not outdated. It is a very useful technology when you want
to handle special symbols or fonts. E.g. chess uses a lot of symbols
which have no unicode positi
Hi Zdenek,
Am 07.08.2012 um 10:36 schrieb Zdenek Wagner :
>>
> Please do not mix engine and format. XeTeX does a few things i a
> different way than TeX. In the LaTeX user's eyes the font loading is
> different. It was not practical to modify the old LaTeX font loading
> packages, therefore fon
