From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Installing an arabic font
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 09:08:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130509070806.GA17699@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <518ABDA0.9080307@wxs.nl>
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:03:28PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 5/8/2013 10:58 PM, "H. Özoguz" wrote:
> >>seems like an issue with liga ... i'm not sure if that's a context
> >>problem
> >
> >Hmm, see in the attachment the output of MS-Word, with activated
> >ligatures. So it has to do anything with ConText, or not? Or maybe this
> >font uses in some way properties of Word in handling fonts?
>
> i don't know what word does, but it probably uses the volt
> machinery. ... maybe Khaled or Idris knows
If the font has OT layout tables Word will just use them, no tricks (as
far as glyph positioning is concerned). The font is fine with other
OpenType engines as well, e.g. HarfBuzz, so it is probably a ConTeXt
issue.
Regards,
Khaled
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-08 20:58 "H. Özoguz"
2013-05-08 21:03 ` Hans Hagen
2013-05-09 7:08 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
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2013-05-09 17:27 "H. Özoguz"
2013-05-10 8:35 ` Hans Hagen
2013-05-09 7:45 "H. Özoguz"
2013-05-09 10:55 ` Hans Hagen
2013-05-08 19:23 "H. Özoguz"
2013-05-08 20:16 ` Hans Hagen
2013-05-08 15:39 "H. Özoguz"
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2013-05-08 15:38 ` "H. Özoguz"
2013-05-08 16:28 ` Khaled Hosny
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