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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 15:51:02 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Tues, Nov 6 2012 10:51 am
Subject: Re: pdfTeX and UCS
On 2012-10-31, GL wrote:
Yes.
> Le 31/10/2012 21:59, Enrico Gregorio a Žcrit : >> GL <gouail...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Le 31/10/2012 13:31, Enrico Gregorio a Žcrit : >>>> GL <gouail...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> pdftex uses tfm files for its fonts; so basically only 256 >>>> characters are allowed in a font. ... >>> This would mean that to use a unicode font with pdfTeX (and inputenc) >>> we shall cut the font in subfonts, each of whose containing 256 glyphs ? ...
> Well. This means that pdfTeX will die, superseeded by LuaTeX,
Eventually, yes.
... > Using unicode font, when available, seems too attractive for > typographers. Just like the original TeX was superseded by eTeX and later pdfTeX. It's a slow process, though. Günter
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