Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:23:25 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kB1HNLE3031917 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:23:21 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kB1HG1wo015554; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:16:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kAUN21X8027421; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:16:00 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.3) with spool id 1291773 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:16:00 +0100 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kB1HG0Ce017644 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:16:00 +0100 Received: from venus.open.ac.uk (venus.open.ac.uk [137.108.246.32]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kB1HFhwo015432 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:15:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from sputnik.open.ac.uk ([137.108.170.76]) by venus.open.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GqBzC-0005zf-Tz for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:15:42 +0000 Received: from EPPING-EVS1.open.ac.uk ([137.108.170.246]) by sputnik.open.ac.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:15:42 +0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: The Next Font Selection Scheme Thread-Index: AccVaxvNap9LUOWrS0yEADeEiXFepQAAOvCA X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Dec 2006 17:15:42.0577 (UTC) FILETIME=[54BE7E10:01C7156C] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id kB1HG0Ce017645 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:15:42 -0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: "J.Fine" Subject: Re: The Next Font Selection Scheme To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Precedence: list X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5000 Frank wrote: > in other words, somewhere there has to be a knowledgeable > instance that decides > what to do when a current font selection doesn't work for the > requested > characters because it is not part of the supported glyph set > of that resource > --- you can consider that part of the font selection > intelligence and it is > not resolved with a naming standard for characters eg unicode Is that not what virtual fonts are for? -- Jonathan