From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: showfont with xetex (syntax changed?)
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:58:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4758384F.9060204@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <115224fb0712060933h7cd3d049we4923f93ce2eb562@mail.gmail.com>
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 2007/12/6, Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>:
>> Am 06.12.2007 um 15:37 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
>>
>>> 2007/12/6, Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>:
>>>> Am 06.12.2007 um 14:48 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>>>>
>>>>> something numbers=oldstyle could be supported but i see no real
>>>>> reason
>>>>> for it since then we end up in endless lists of possibilities
>>>>> (given all
>>>>> kind of combinations)
>>>> I have not yet played with Lua, thus I can't follow your and Mojca's
>>>> discussion at that point.
>>>> But to have a handy way to switch on/off oldstyle figures would be
>>>> very useful!
>>>>
>>>> "numbers=oldstyle" shouldn't be considered as a theoretical
>>>> possibility, it is needed quite often.
>>>>
>>>> Steffen
>>> The following should work, can't test it at the moment
>>>
>>> \definefontfeature[enableoldstyle][onum=yes]
>>> \definefontfeature[disableoldstyle][onum=no]
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> 123 \setfontfeature{enableoldstyle} 456 \setfontfeature
>>> {disableoldstyle} 789
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>
>> you mean typeset with Lua, right? with XeTeX it yields
>>
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.20 \setfontfeature!
>
> This is a new feature introduced only for LuaTeX, not XeTeX
> and allows you to choose a different fontfeature in your document.
>
> Could be used overwrite the defaults for \os and \sc.
>
> \def\os{\setfonrfeature{oldstyle}}
> \def\sc{\setfonrfeature{smallscaps}}
if you set auto=yes, this mechanism also adapts itself to the language,
which for instance for palatino-nova means that in german one does not
get an ij lig but in dutch it magically shows up (or ae ligature in
french but not english)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-06 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 10:26 Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-06 11:32 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-12-06 13:48 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-06 14:30 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-06 14:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-06 15:50 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-06 17:33 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-06 17:58 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2007-12-07 19:09 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-09 12:13 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-10 12:09 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-10 12:20 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-07 19:08 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-06 16:30 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-12-07 9:29 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-07 9:33 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-06 14:23 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-07 19:07 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-06 15:43 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-06 16:09 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-06 16:35 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-12-06 16:59 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-06 17:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-06 17:45 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-06 17:55 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-06 20:14 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-06 20:32 ` Hans Hagen
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