Re: [OT] Typographical quality of various engines

["Jan Tosovsky" <j.tosovsky@email.cz>]

On 2014-05-15 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 5/14/2014 10:21 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I've finished a rough comparision of various engines for their
> > typographical quality: http://drifted.in/publishing/
> >
> > From my point of view the ConTeXt is the best offering in this 
> > field to date, so congratulation!
> >
> > If you find something inappropriate or misleading in my text, please
> > comment or let me know.
> >
> > If my ConTeXt examples could be written more efficiently, I am open
> > to fix it.
> 
> Font expansion only, applied to a limited character subset
> 
> Is that true? It is applied to any character that you want, of course
> given that you associate expansion factors, but that happens for quite
> some characters in context.

Good point, it should be clarified it is a default vector set, which can be
further customized (extended).
My info is based on this Wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Protrusion
pointing to this source code:
http://source.contextgarden.net/font-ext.lua 

By that subset I mean the table vectors['default']


> Concerning homogenization, context has support for dynamically aplying
> feature (alternates) to improve the look and feel but of course not
> many fonts have multiple variants for glyphs grouped in stylistic 
> alternates so this mechanism is hardly used (only for some arabic).

Yes, I am aware of this, but it is indeed not very obvious from the text.

Thanks for your suggestions,

Jan

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