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Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend? |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:09:16 +0100 (CET) |
> > Ideally, those OpenType TeX fonts should behave similar to any
> > other OpenType font; this means the loss of italic correction
> > (which isn't available in OpenType fonts), for example, but it
> > assures that the font interface doesn't have to cope with
> > special cases.
>
> That's not going to work completely, not only do we loose italic
> correction, but also design size. Can't we agree with other parties
> (tetex?) on a standard SFNT table for TeX specific information?
That's an excellent idea, so I'm forwarding this to the relevant
mailing lists. George already has started with three SFNT tables in
fontforge:
ITLC italic correction
TCHL TeX charlist
TEXL TeX extension list
Maybe we should add a fourth table to hold the missing bits...
Werner
- UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/01
- UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/01
- Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/01/02
- Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/03
- Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Rogier van Dalen, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, George Williams, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, George Williams, 2005/01/05
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, George Williams, 2005/01/05
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/01/05
- Re: [tex-live] Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Vladimir Volovich, 2005/01/05
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Rogier van Dalen, 2005/01/05
- Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/04