From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Fontfeatures and latin script
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:48:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488DCE3C.6050001@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <115224fb0807280520i3663e0f4g5632d6e14ebe73bd@mail.gmail.com>
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> why was 'script=latn' removed from the three predefined fontfeatures
> default, oldstyle and smallcaps.
>
> A lot of fonts (free and commercial) need these features to enable
> kerning, ligatures and other features.
The most important reason was that an explicit default like
script=latn
will block any and all features in the font that depend on the
default script, and whether that is latn or cyrl or arab etc.
depends on the font. Phrased in another way: script=latn
discriminates against other scripts and fonts.
We are still searching for a better (=as automatic as possible)
solution.
Best wishes,
Taco & Hans
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