* Fontfeatures and latin script @ 2008-07-28 12:20 Wolfgang Schuster 2008-07-28 13:48 ` Taco Hoekwater 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2008-07-28 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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. Regards, Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Fontfeatures and latin script 2008-07-28 12:20 Fontfeatures and latin script Wolfgang Schuster @ 2008-07-28 13:48 ` Taco Hoekwater 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2008-07-28 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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