From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42789 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fontfeatures and latin script Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:48:44 +0200 Message-ID: <488DCE3C.6050001@elvenkind.com> References: <115224fb0807280520i3663e0f4g5632d6e14ebe73bd@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217253029 11456 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2008 13:50:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:50:29 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jul 28 15:51:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNT83-0001WL-9s for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:51:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC72A1FDDA; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:50:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04269-01-6; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:49:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 950CD1FC00; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:49:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DFF11FB60 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:49:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02090-01-24 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:48:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from plane.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E691FC00 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:48:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by plane.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2208A8026A34 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:48:44 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080305) In-Reply-To: <115224fb0807280520i3663e0f4g5632d6e14ebe73bd@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42789 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________