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Re: encoding hack


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: encoding hack
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:18:32 +0200 (CEST)

> Sorry if I don't understand everything but I think adding support
> for OpenType fonts would be by far better than hacking with all
> those TeX font stuff.  Is it practically possible?

This is a completely different issue.  We have first to solve the
problem how to access glyphs in an easy way without hitting the
256-glyph limit (I mean the PostScript encoding vectors, not the Tex
limit).  Using OpenType fonts is actually much more complicated:
Either we have to define our own glyph repertoire to access the fonts
via CID numbers, or we must assign glyphs to PUA codes so that a
Unicode cmap can address them.  Both is quite inelegant IMHO.


    Werner




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