On 2024-11-04 12:54, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 11/4/2024 6:39 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
>>
>> Looking a bit more, the problem is not protrusion but the bounding 
>> box. Look at the left side of the italic T and W, and to a lesser 
>> degree C, O, and Q, produced by the following.
>>
>>     \usetypescript[libertinus]
>>     \setupbodyfont[libertinus]
>>     \starttext
>> ¦\doloopoverlist{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z}
>>     {\it\recursestring\tf¦}\par
>> ¦\doloopoverlist{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z}
>>     {\recursestring¦}
>>
>> ¦\doloopoverlist{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z}
>>     {\WORD{\it\recursestring}\tf¦}\par
>> ¦\doloopoverlist{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z}
>>     {\WORD{\recursestring}¦}
>>     \stoptext
>>
>> This may be an issue for the font maintainer, but is there anything 
>> that could be done within context?
>
> you can make a font goodie file where you patch properties of a 
> specific glyph but then you also need to keep an eye on when the font 
> gets fixed
>
> Hans
>
Can anyone provide a pointer to a goodie file where glyph boundaries are 
manipulated? I could not find anything relevant in the wiki, docs, or 
source.

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Rik