request for a quick & dirty hack: shift accents in compose=yes

request for a quick & dirty hack: shift accents in compose=yes

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hello,

I'm using a feature "compose=yes"

\definefontfeature
 [default]
 [liga=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,compose=yes]

in a handwritten font to get ccarons (font
SnellRoundhandLTStd-Scr.otf). However the carons are placed way off to
the right due to the nature of handwritten font.

Is there any simple, very-quick-and-dirty way to fix ConTeXt sources
(I need it very soon), so that carons would be placed a bit more to
the left? (I don't mind to do it just for this single document and
then forget about it?)

Thanks a lot,
    Mojca
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Re: request for a quick & dirty hack: shift accents in compose=yes

[Mojca Miklavec]

Answering myself: I ended up using
    c\kern-7pt\hbox to 0pt{\textcaron\hss}\kern7pt
but it would be nice to add some options to allow fixing fonts on a
slightly more user-friendly level.

(Hans already started writing some hooks to adjust accent height, but
it would be nice to finish it, so that it could be applied to other
exotic fonts.)

Mojca

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 21:25, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using a feature "compose=yes"
>
> \definefontfeature
>  [default]
>  [liga=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,compose=yes]
>
> in a handwritten font to get ccarons (font
> SnellRoundhandLTStd-Scr.otf). However the carons are placed way off to
> the right due to the nature of handwritten font.
>
> Is there any simple, very-quick-and-dirty way to fix ConTeXt sources
> (I need it very soon), so that carons would be placed a bit more to
> the left? (I don't mind to do it just for this single document and
> then forget about it?)
>
> Thanks a lot,
>    Mojca
>
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Re: request for a quick & dirty hack: shift accents in compose=yes

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Fri, 20 May 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> (Hans already started writing some hooks to adjust accent height, but
> it would be nice to finish it, so that it could be applied to other
> exotic fonts.)

http://xkcd.com/619/

:)

Aditya
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Re: request for a quick & dirty hack: shift accents in compose=yes

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> Answering myself: I ended up using
>     c\kern-7pt\hbox to 0pt{\textcaron\hss}\kern7pt
> but it would be nice to add some options to allow fixing fonts on a
> slightly more user-friendly level.

  And what do you expect the user interface to look like?  You're going
to need to add information in the font for each relevant glyph or glyph
pairs; it's a little bit like using a macro to adjust accent placement
at that point.

	Arthur
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Re: request for a quick & dirty hack: shift accents in compose=yes

[Hans Hagen]

On 21-5-2011 12:52, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> Answering myself: I ended up using
>>      c\kern-7pt\hbox to 0pt{\textcaron\hss}\kern7pt
>> but it would be nice to add some options to allow fixing fonts on a
>> slightly more user-friendly level.
>
>    And what do you expect the user interface to look like?  You're going
> to need to add information in the font for each relevant glyph or glyph
> pairs; it's a little bit like using a macro to adjust accent placement
> at that point.

actually there is a goodie that permits this (see lucida-one.lfg)

Hans

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