Re: [NTG-context] Commercial fonts and diacritics

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On 6/1/2023 11:47 AM, hanneder--- via ntg-context wrote:
> 
> I feel that I should have solved the following question myself---I have 
> a long history of making
> diacritics for Sanskrit work in different incarnations of TeX since 
> 1991---but I have never
> understood the technicalities of otf fonts.
> 
> Currently I am trying to use high quality Adobe Fonts for Sanskrit 
> texts, which need the following
> diacritics: āīūṛś ḍḷṭṣṃḥṛṝṣṅṇ (ideally also with capitals). The font 
> Adobe Text Pro prints them
> perfectly, but Minion Pro does not.
> 
> However, if you enter your own text on the fontshop website, it seems to 
> work, and this is why I
> prematurely bought yet another new version of Minion Pro, hoping that it 
> would work this time.
> 
> If you look at font with fontforge, many utf code positions for Indic 
> Transliteration are empty,
> i.e. Minionpro does not have the characters with diacritics, Adobe Text 
> Pro has them. So far, so
> good (or not).
> 
> The hotline of fontshop.com thinks that there is an OpenType feature 
> that creates so-called
> Composits out of the elements. I can understand the mechanism, I guess I 
> have tweaked something
> similar in pdflatex or OmegaTeX in the pre-otf era, but I have no idea 
> whether one of these
> mechanism can be utilised in Xe-, Lua- Or ConTeXt nowadays. I was hoping 
> that some fontfeatures
> (fakecombining=yes,compose=yes) would do the trick, but apparently they 
> do not.
> 
> In a sense this is no big deal. There are many nice fonts around (and 
> those that come with ConTeXt
> are great), but I was used to printing books with an old Type-1 Minion
> (www.ctan.org/pkg/w-a-schmidt) and find it hard to accept that this 
> should not be possible with the
> modern flavours of TeX.
> 
> 
> My system:
> 
> This is LuaTeX, Version 1.16.0 (TeX Live 2023/Arch Linux)
> open source     > level 1, order 1, name 
> '/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkiv/cont-yes.mkiv'

Can you try context lmtx instead? I get the dots there.

> Minimal example:
> 
> \enableregime[utf]

^^ no need for this, it's the default

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