From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/53015 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Schwartz Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Small caps problem/bug with some fonts Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:38:47 -0500 Message-ID: <20090918223847.GB30581@crud.chemoelectric.org> References: <86d68cc30909180557x19dea6b8o8a2562f125a85275@mail.gmail.com> <4AB387A0.2000300@wxs.nl> <20090918181528.GA28412@crud.chemoelectric.org> <4AB3D4A8.1020809@wxs.nl> <20090918201908.GA29031@crud.chemoelectric.org> <4AB3FE0B.2060406@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253313558 5758 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2009 22:39:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:39:18 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Sep 19 00:39:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mom6g-0000N2-R9 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:39:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB957C9AC1; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:39:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 3Cmk0qSEXi7t; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:39:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE25C9A92; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:39:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81535C9A92 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:39:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 4PGdLSv7ZK2f for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:38:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from QMTA11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.211]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2083DC9A90 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:38:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from OMTA24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.92]) by QMTA11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id iFly1c0081zF43QABNburR; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:35:54 +0000 Original-Received: from crud.chemoelectric.org ([66.41.30.59]) by OMTA24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id iNj01c0021GXozm8kNj2Gw; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:43:04 +0000 Original-Received: from crud.chemoelectric.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crud.chemoelectric.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8IMcmJS030779 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:38:48 -0500 Original-Received: (from trashman@localhost) by crud.chemoelectric.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8IMcl9P030778 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:38:47 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AB3FE0B.2060406@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:53015 Archived-At: Hans Hagen skribis: > but even then, if a font is not clear about issues, then one can get > unwanted side effects (the frac feature for instance is often quite > bugged and can only be applied selectively) Yeah, I think trying to be fancy with contextual substitutions is a bit like getting drunk. I'm not even sure why there was a "frac" tag when it was originally intended to be converted to "numr" and "dnom" tags. (I just looked at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec160/features_fj.htm#frac to see what it says nowadays and now want to go get drunk.) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________