From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: font eatures with fallback fonts
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:25:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080801112553.GA6823@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4892D181.8050006@wxs.nl>
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On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 11:04:01AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > Font features doesn't seem to work with fallback fonts (or I didn't get
> > it right).
> >
> > See the attached file (has some comments)
>
> keep in mind that this is still somewhat experimental and that i might
> add a bit more control over things
I see.
> % This doesn't use the fallback featue, so is OK
> \definefont[ArabType][Arabtype*fea]
>
> you need to keep in mind that the *featureset specification is notr
> always interpreted, so you need to specify the feature with the
> (symbolic) font name:
>
> \definefontfallback [ara] [Arabtype*fea] [arabic] [force=yes]
> \definefontsynonym[Arabicserif][Serif][fallbacks=ara]
Aha, I should somehow expected that (given all the combinations I
tried).
> we might deal withthe following later but currently it is not supported
>
> % This doesn't render Arabic too
> \definefont[ArabicFea][Arabicserif*fea]
>
> (one aspect of fallbacks is that each 'subfont' can have its own
> features so inheriting from the parent font is not a good idea)
Right, it might not be desired at all.
Thanks,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 23:36 Khaled Hosny
2008-08-01 9:04 ` Hans Hagen
2008-08-01 11:25 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
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