Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f1HK8tf04529 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:55 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1HK8td20498 . for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1HK8tQ10117 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:55 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C0991D.7442A580" Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA16969 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:54 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1HK8sH26517 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.4782BDC5@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:46 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 489676 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:50 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25884 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08842 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:46 +0100 Received: from postfix2-1.free.fr (postfix2-1.free.fr [213.228.0.9]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1HK8lx22084 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from ujf-grenoble.fr (grenoble-53-121.dial.proxad.net [213.228.53.121]) by postfix2-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33492C12C; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:08:45 +0100 (CET) References: <14985.13977.836075.844694@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20010213.214622.129345957.wl@gnu.org> Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [fr] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: fr,en,es Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:39:18 +0100 Message-ID: <3A8ED366.39543EFC@ujf-grenoble.fr> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Thierry Bouche" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3961 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0991D.7442A580 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Werner LEMBERG a =E9crit : > > > > - The output encoding is limited to 8 bit fonts, which may not be > > > enough to get correct kerning for some languages. (Can someone > > > confirm or correct this???) > > > > We need some examples. I can't find any. a full swash italic font with automatic ligaturing for uppercases (including accented ones), plus maybe automatic ligaturing of some extra pairs than the standard ones, and maybe also automatic selection of long s/short s or other special ending charachters. (An example could be how to use the full set of AJenson, making caps printing normal caps inside a word, and swash caps at the beginning, plus some other niceties...) -- well I didn't count, I didn't even try that... Th. B. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0991D.7442A580 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary

Werner LEMBERG a =E9crit :
>
> > > - The output encoding is limited to 8 = bit fonts, which may not be
> > >   enough to get correct = kerning for some languages. (Can someone
> > >   confirm or correct = this???)
> >
> > We need some examples. I can't find = any.

a full swash italic font with automatic ligaturing for = uppercases
(including accented ones), plus maybe automatic = ligaturing of some extra
pairs than the standard ones, and maybe also = automatic selection of long
s/short s or other special ending charachters.

(An example could be how to use the full set of = AJenson, making caps
printing normal caps inside a word, and swash caps at = the beginning,
plus some other niceties...) -- well I didn't count, = I didn't even try
that...

Th. B.

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