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.



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