From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/61428 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steffen Wolfrum Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt meeting Lua tutorials Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:34:33 +0200 Message-ID: <255FF2F0-0F19-401A-BD10-9D1273A98FDE@st.estfiles.de> References: <4C6FBCFE.4030904@elvenkind.com> <90814E5C-517B-4D79-A332-3B306F9207B9@mpq.mpg.de> <4C74DF99.10604@wxs.nl> <20100825104615.GA9972@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283369696 13195 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2010 19:34:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:34:56 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Sep 01 21:34:55 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqt5C-0007qI-N3 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:34:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1AFCA66B; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:34:53 +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 owoIs3IulBbx; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:34:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3094CA660; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:34:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BFBCA660 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:34:47 +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 2AWTYzXfsZu5 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:34:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82FACA649 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:34:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (smtprelay03.ispgateway.de [80.67.29.7]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o81JYZM7020499 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:34:35 +0200 Original-Received: from [89.247.66.242] (helo=[192.168.1.4]) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqt4s-0002Vl-Mv for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:34:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20100825104615.GA9972@khaled-laptop> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Df-Sender: 698580 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=80.67.29.7; country=DE; region=02; city=Ismaning; latitude=48.2333; longitude=11.6333; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.2333,11.6333&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06D1vyz5C - 6a5d11986157 - 20100901 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 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:61428 Archived-At: Am 25.08.2010 um 12:46 schrieb Khaled Hosny: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:17:13AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 25-8-2010 10:05, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >>> >>> Am 24.08.2010 um 20:37 schrieb Oliver Buerschaper: >>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Today I started preparations for my activities at the ConTeXt meeting. >>>>> >>>>> There are two small lua tutorials in the program, and I am looking >>>>> for input on both. There is one that is supposed to be a general >>>>> beginner's introduction, and one specifically about fonts. >>>>> >>>>> For both, I am looking for input on what subjects I should cover? >>>>> >>>>> Since both tutorials will end up as articles/wiki pages, it makes >>>>> sense to ask everybody on the list for input (but requests by actual >>>>> attendees will be scored considerably higher). >>>> >>>> Perhaps some example to modify a font at runtime? I don't know whether that's possible at all, but if yes, it would be great to see how one could modify kerning tables etc. Often a font needs to be groomed but its license places some restrictions on modifying the file itself... >>> >>> >>> +1 >> >> This is somewhat tricky. Actually I had a mechanism for that but I >> discarded the code. However there will be a feature like that some >> day as it needs a rather tight integration in the core of context's >> font handling. (btw, there is a feature for type 1 fonts that adds >> 'missing' kerns based on shape codes). > > And there is font feature files, which, when not broken :), look the > same to the OpenType handling code as if the feature were in the > original font i.e. no special handling needed. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/fontfeaturefiles Steffen ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________