[Dev-luatex] few font setup related questions

[Igor Khomyakov]

This sounds great. Thanks. I guess the True Type font support will be/ 
is similar, correct ?

Hans, also could you confirm/disaffirm that the following  
(workaround) font setup will work w/ utf-8 input, roughly:

	- create multiple small ttf subsets and set them up using std pdftex  
facilities (i.e. pdftex.map)
	- create large unicode-encoded virtual font that would refer to the  
small real subfonts
	- no additional lua recode is needed as the unicode input would be  
mapped directly to correct OVF slot by default (is this true?)
	- what happens to the unicode characters outside of 65K range ?

Thanks again. Looking forward to the sample.

Igor
	


On Apr 24, 2007, at 3:42 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Igor Khomyakov wrote:
>> Hans, thank you for your swift reply. We've been using pdftex for  
>> quite some time, and will be really glad to experiment with the  
>> current version of LuaTex, and not in a hurry, and prepared to  
>> throw everything away :-)
>> If possible, could you give some direction (very rough outline) on  
>> how to set "large" ttf and otf fonts (assuming that the input is  
>> UTF-8 encoded)?   Has anyone tried/did this before ?
> I can post an example in a couple of weeks; the current open type  
> table representation is in the process of being changes (we are  
> switching from approx fontforge 1* structure to approx the new  
> fontforge 2* structure).
>
> (As part of the project we will write some simple generic font  
> code; no features and such, just simple mappings from otf to tfm +  
> basic ligatures and kerns so that one can do open type in  
> traditional texie ways; these can then serve as a starting point  
> for users.)
>
> Hans