[pdftex] Open type fonts / Omega / ...

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Tue Feb 5 15:42:29 CET 2002


At 01:35 PM 2/5/2002 +0000, Michael Chapman wrote:
>On Tuesday 05 February 2002 09:48, Kester Clegg wrote:
> > Well, there was an article in TUGBoat vol 21 that suggested virtual fonts
> > for TeX and Omega could "contain all the glyphs defined by the T1 encoding
> > as well as all the alternates, swashes, extra ligatures, and fraction
> > components because they are 16-bit Omega fonts."
> >
>
>Hi naïve question (I'm the naïve guy you all helped with my Ukrainian
>[Thanks!] ... who is now trying to put RtoL quotations in Arabic in an
>English 'book' ...), but ....
>
>Can anyone comment on Omega ?
>
>I've visted the website, downloaded the software, joined the mailing list ...
>done all that ... just need someone with three or more years more experience
>than myself to sum up whether I'm being idealistic in hoping for a snappy
>universal-encoding2pdf processor, or not?

this is the pdftex (i.e. good old tex) list; you may want to take a look at 
arabtex (or alternatively pdfetex with lr/rl typesetting)

Hans
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