[cl-typesetting-devel] Re: [cl-pdf-devel] Character encoding?

[Dmitriy Ivanov]

Marc Battyani wrote on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:14:42 +0100 02:14:

| Right but I still think that glyphs substitution is a cl-typesetting
| issue.
|
| Sure, the simple unicode to non-unicode conversion could be just an
| encoding issue but even that can be more complex. For instance you
| could gather the unicode glyphs used in a document and dynamically
| generate a custom non-unicode encoding that maps them to a font glyphs
| if you have less than 256 glyphs and they are all in the font.
|
| Doing more than just the simplest encoding conversions can only be done
| at the cl-typesetting level. For instance if a font lacks the euro
| glyph, cl-typesetting could substitute a custom cl-pdf box that draws
| the euro sign. There are also the ligatures, the ellipsis (... ?) etc.

Substituting such a box with a custom font and encoding would be a nice
feature. But IMHO, we can approach it after introducing an advanced style
system equipped with font families.
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Sincerely,
Dmitriy Ivanov
lisp.ystok.ru