[luatex] dump a tfm to a file

[Robin Fairbairns]

Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:

> On 06/21/2011 10:17 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Taco Hoekwater<taco at elvenkind.com>  wrote:
> >> On 06/21/2011 10:10 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> OFM (Omega's extensions to TFM) allows 65536 glyphs which is more,
> >>>> but still not enough to encode Unicode Math properly. I do not
> >>>> think there is *any* extension to TFM anywhere that supports the
> >>>> full Unicode range.
> >>>
> >>> But  OpenType allows only 65536 glyphs, so maybe it's not so serious.
> >>
> >> You get the traditional TeX font encoding issue, only shifted 8 bits.
> >
> > right, but this time it's an OpenType limitation
> > Perhaps one can design an UFM (Unicode extension to TFM) with 32 bit,
> > but still have to fight against the OpenType limitation.
> 
> I fail to see the usefulness of such an extension.

solves ulrike's problem by providing an easy route ... but what she
actually _needs_ is a lua script to dump the tables in the format tex4ht
wants.

i assume.

robin