From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Making necessary OpenType features on by default
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:25:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090223122515.GA9276@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A27DA1.2090306@wxs.nl>
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:42:41AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Otared Kavian wrote:
>> Hi Hans, Khaled, and Idris,
>>
>> If a humble opinion from an ordinary user may be issued, I agree with
>> Khaled that it would be extremely useful to have some basic default
>> settings for Arabic fonts, and even more generally for any particular
>> fonts used for other languages. This would not prevent those specialist
>> typesetters who want particular features to be turned on, to do so
>> through appropriate mechanisms.
>>
>> As a basic user I am frustrated when using mkiv, that most declaration
>> of features are completely cryptic, and not being a specialist of OTF
>> or other font specifications, I don't know which features are essential
>> for writing and typesetting an article in Persian or any language using
>> Arabic alphabet.
>> While the following is quite easy to understand and to use in XeConTeXt
>> %%%%%%%%%
>
> well, it might be easy to understand given that default features are
> enabled but on the other hand,. when you want to disable a feature you
> need to know what is enabled so in practice you have the same problem
Yes, but the majority if people want need that, if I want to play with
OpenType features then I'm supposed to know what I'm doing, while most
people will be happy with the default features (given it is a reasonable
default of course.)
[...]
> so, it seems to depend on calt but turning on calt by default is *not*
> what the ms spec recommends for arabtype
>
> you see the problem?
I think is is arabtype's problem if they suggest turning calt off by
default, if I've contextual alternatives in my font this means I think
those alternatives are necessary to render text correctly, otherwise I
would have used a stylistic set.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-20 18:39 Khaled Hosny
2009-02-20 18:57 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 19:31 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-20 21:02 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-20 21:23 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-20 22:10 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 22:26 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-21 23:53 ` Karl Berry
2009-02-20 20:23 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-20 22:07 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 22:49 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-21 15:58 ` Ilda Khaki
2009-02-23 10:58 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-21 13:05 ` Otared Kavian
2009-02-22 21:03 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-22 22:44 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-23 12:02 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 13:00 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-23 15:34 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-23 17:15 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 17:56 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2009-02-23 22:51 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 23:19 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-24 20:41 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-25 2:30 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-23 10:53 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-23 12:09 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 12:17 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2009-02-23 12:28 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-23 16:56 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 17:01 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-02-23 17:04 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-02-23 17:49 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 23:23 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-24 15:49 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2009-02-24 16:03 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-23 12:36 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-22 22:54 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-22 23:35 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-21 21:14 ` Otared Kavian
2009-02-23 10:42 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-23 12:25 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2009-02-23 12:46 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 12:56 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 18:58 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 20:27 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-20 22:09 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 22:46 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-21 11:41 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-22 20:54 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-22 23:08 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-22 13:51 ` Khaled Hosny
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