From: Philipp Gesang <Philipp.Gesang@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: error calling font.getfont() on certain fonts
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:36:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130329163635.GB15331@phlegethon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5155BD77.6060305@wxs.nl>
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> On 3/29/2013 4:29 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> >I just read that in the manual:
> >
> > Note that at the moment, each access to the font.fonts or call
> > to font.getfont creates a lua table for the whole font. This
> > process can be quite slow. In a later version of LuaTEX, this
> > interface will change (it will start using userdata objects
> > instead of actual tables).
>
> even then it's of not much use for context as we have more data and
> keep that data at the lua end so font.getfont has no benefits then
For my purpose the benefit is that I can access some info about
the font with the same code in all three formats.
> >Compared to Plain, Context adds a lot to the “.parameters” table.
> >Sadly, writing to it doesn’t appear to change anything …
>
> well, why would you .. the font is already passed to tex and you
> cannot change that frozen state (imagine: what would a change in
> width of a char mean halfway? it woul dnot work well with the
> backend) ... what would you like to change?
That wasn’t 100% serious. Just me experimenting.
Best
Philipp
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-28 17:41 Philipp Gesang
2013-03-29 14:21 ` Hans Hagen
2013-03-29 15:29 ` Philipp Gesang
2013-03-29 16:12 ` Hans Hagen
2013-03-29 16:36 ` Philipp Gesang [this message]
2013-03-29 16:42 ` Hans Hagen
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