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Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?
From: |
Rogier van Dalen |
Subject: |
Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend? |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:37:47 +0100 |
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:09:16 +0100 (CET), Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
> [...]
> Maybe we should add a fourth table to hold the missing bits...
FWIW, design size information is already in the OpenType specs: "size"
feature (rather than a table).
Maybe these things ought to be discussed on the OpenType mailing list too?
Regards,
Rogier
- 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, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?,
Rogier van Dalen <=
- 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
- Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/01/06