Re: MKIV Chinese typesetting

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Jan 29, 2008 12:19 AM, Arthur Reutenauer
<arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org> wrote:
> > This is wrong, fon-otf contains a few lua macros about linebreaking
> > and char-def has information about the character width (full width,
> > half width ...)
> > and other information like opening punctuation, parenthesis but none
> > of them is finished.
>
>   OK, I thought line breaking would be managed in node-*, so I didn't
> look in font-otf for it.
>
> >>   Sure, there should be a possibility of specifying a Western font to be
> >> used inside Chinese text.
> >
> > Could be done with cirtual fonts but we need a interface.
>
>   Sure, no need to rush things.
>
> > You need the hang script, it takes care about the linebreak.
>
>   What do you mean?  How does it take care about the linebreak?  And how
> can it be relevant for Chinese characters?  Default Chinese fonts from
> Adobe like AdobeSongStd don't have a "hang" script at all anyway.  Do
> you know fonts that have?

You need the hang script in \definefontfeature to enable ConTeXt linebreak
for CJK, don't ask me why I you have to use it as value for script.

Wolfgang
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