From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Typescript/fallbacks problem
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 19:00:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b06f57c-ab92-ac53-5a0f-e6ef94dfabd5@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMHZ1dYzR40yTB9tvLEuhem1Sc0y+OiU+cbRNC7D+OBwVRB1iw@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/27/2017 6:14 PM, Mohammad Hossein Bateni wrote:
> Hans and Otared, thanks a lot for your attention. I do appreciate your
> time.
>
> Otared:
>
> The fallback was called "dejavudefault" on my machine when I was testing
> it. I changed the name in the email, to make the lines shorter, but
> apparently I missed some instances—sorry—and that made it to the version
> I uploaded also.
>
> Hans:
>
> I'm really sorry for wasting your time with these low-quality fonts...
> but unfortunately these are among the few open-source Farsi fonts, and
> they are simple enough to be extendible. The font designer is not a
> professional, but accepts bug reports, suggestions, etc. So I spend
> some time finding issues and fixing/reporting them.
>
> Could you explain a bit about the "identifying as a math font" part?
> What is the sign of that? To fix it, should I remove all the
> math-related fields in the font? Was the math thing only in the regular
> font or also in bold? Because I noticed the problem only in the regular
> shape.
it has a math constants table and a math script feature (but no math
support afaiks) and in soem cases context does checks for a font being a
math font
anyway, the next beta should (sort of) work
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 7:34 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl
> <mailto:pragma@wxs.nl>> wrote:
>
> On 5/27/2017 11:39 AM, Otared Kavian wrote:
>
> Hi Mohammad Hossein,
>
> Your report is beyond my knowledge, but I would like to ask you
> a question about the setup of fallback fonts: why are you
> referring to « dejavudef » in the commands such as
>
> \definefontsynonym [SahelBd]
> [SahelBold][features={arabic,tlig},fallbacks=dejavudef]
>
> while you have defined before « dejavudefault » (and not «
> dejavudef ») in:
>
> \definefontfallback[dejavudefault][dejavusans]
> [range=generalpunctuation,check=yes,force=no]
>
> indeed. but on top of that, the font reports itself as a math font
> so that confuses the fallback mechanism (we have fundamental
> different approaches for math and text fonts) ... i'll try to deal
> with it but to some extend consider spending time on crappy fonts a
> bit of a waste
>
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[not found] <CAMHZ1daucwXqw0aAuwS9UzODKAA-AiKkQjcPVKO1=nYt8rx-9w@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-26 3:52 ` Mohammad Hossein Bateni
2017-05-27 9:39 ` Otared Kavian
2017-05-27 11:34 ` Hans Hagen
2017-05-27 16:14 ` Mohammad Hossein Bateni
2017-05-27 17:00 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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