Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> Do you really a contextname for every adobename in the list?

no, in mkiv we can have use adobe names as well

> 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

taht's what char-def is for

>> Hans, should contextnames.txt be deleted now? So that only one list
>> will be kept up to date.

well, we can keep it for a while for sentimental reasons

>> 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.

maybe a big fallback virtual font covering all of unicode ...

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