Re: [PyX-user] textrunner, xetex

[René B. <rba...@mu...>]

Salut André,

I see: there is no hope before next week ...;)

What do you think about that: get a PS-form of the wanted glyphs
(trough FontForge ?) and translate to Pyx (I made that for some
music glyphs) ?

Servus

René

Le Thu, 11 May 2017 10:09:02 +0200,
André Wobst <wo...@us...> a écrit :

> Dear René,
> 
> just a very quick response, also for my own reference for the future.
> 
> Right now we do not support anything else than the original dvi
> format as defined by Donald Knuth. Seems like this original dvi
> format is called version 2, and it looks like there are extensions:
> http://dvisvgm.bplaced.net/ talks about version 3 (related to etex)
> and 5 to 7 (related to xetex).
> 
> As an additional reference
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/282763/how-does-xelatex-and-lualatex-extend-the-dvi-format
> talks about 2 additional commands, 252 (define nativ font) and 253
> (set glyphs). Details need to be taken from the .web source as far as
> I can see. Anyway, those additions might be added to the PyX dvi
> engine somewhere in the future. But don't count on that in the near
> future. Given the very slow (but still remaining) development efforts
> on PyX, this will surely take years to be addressed. I'm sorry for
> that.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> André
> 
> Am 10.05.2017 um 12:34 schrieb rba...@mu...:
> 
> > 
> > 2017.05.10
> > 
> > Salut,
> > 
> > How can i use xetex with pyx ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > René B.
> > 
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