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 ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
