am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2011 um 00:07 schrieb Khaled Hosny: >> There is quite a large body of stuff which doesn't really need >> LuaTeX: stuff in western European languages using fonts already >> available to TeX. I suspect that forcing this subset of work to drop >> pdfTeX, which is quite capable of doing the job, might be consider a >> bit 'over the top'. > Even for "western European languages" Unicode and smart fonts (both not > supported "natively" pdftex) have been the norm for decades now; 8bit > encodings and type1 fonts are obsolete and almost nobody outside tex > community is using them. I don't care if e.g. the T1-encoded type1 font lmr were dropped in the long run. With the unicode/eu1/eu2-encoded open type version there exist a good replacement. But I would be very unhappy if support for local (8-bit or other) encodings and type1 fonts were dropped completly: I need them for the chess fonts. I can't use unicode for them - most glyphs don't have unicode points. And even if all glyphs were in unicode: most chess fonts are too old to follow the unicode standard. I also can't use open type or ttf fonts directly as neither with xetex nor with luatex I'm currently able to reencode the fonts like I can do it with an type1-fonts and an enc-file. I know that this a very special case. But at my opinion it is one of the strength of latex that it is flexible enough to handle them. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ulrike Fischer mailto:[log in to unmask]