On Jan 6, 2008 10:15 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:55:23 +0100 > > > One thing that you can try is to add > > contextname='angleleft' > > to the corresponding entry in char-def.lua and then use > > \getglyph{name:TeXGyreHeros-Regular}{\angleleft} > > improvements for char-def.lua are welcome anyway. > > Do you really a contextname for every adobename in the list?
Of course not. But some addition still do make sense (and if you have some on your wishlist, you can submit patches). > I would be enough for me access the glyphs by name, I don't a macro for > every character but the list for adobenames should be filled with the > information from glyphlist.txt. > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/glyph.html It is (although I could imagine that it might have been filled with an older version of that list, but there are not so many differences anyway). > > Hans, should contextnames.txt be deleted now? So that only one list > > will be kept up to date. > > > > XeTeX offers \XeTeXglyphdindex{angleleft} (in LuaTeX you can achieve > > the same with some coding), but I agree that some high-level macro to > > access glyphs by name might be handy. > > I know XeTeX offers this method but method for XeTeX and LuaTeX would > be better, it could be used as replacement for \symbol a many > cases, untill you have the requestet glyph in your font but a fallback > mode would be nice in this situation. Sure. I have agreed that some macro to get a glyph by name would be handy (and could be supported in both engines easily). Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________