From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47573 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Making necessary OpenType features on by default Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:09:36 +0100 Message-ID: <499F2A20.3020701@wxs.nl> References: <20090220183922.GA10583@khaled-laptop> <499EFD43.5020203@wxs.nl> <20090220202724.GB15066@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235167917 24688 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2009 22:11:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:11:57 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Feb 20 23:13:11 2009 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 1LadcJ-0007uL-Cq for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:13:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140511FA2B; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:11:44 +0100 (CET) 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 14994-02-4; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:10:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5F61FB14; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:10:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511411FB14 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:10:26 +0100 (CET) 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 14994-02-3 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:09:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (filter2-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.153]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835EE1FA2B for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:09:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n1KM9ZuW032674 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:09:35 +0100 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 12985-1840426 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:09:35 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: <20090220202724.GB15066@khaled-laptop> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=16; city=Dronten; latitude=52.5333; longitude=5.7167; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5333,5.7167&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 183162649 - 24c86cac95f9 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.153 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:47573 Archived-At: Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 07:58:11PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: >> Khaled Hosny wrote: >> >>> I think some font features should be on by default, so that >>> \definefontfeature[script=arabic] should be enough to get an Arabic font >> btw, this is why we already have arabic as featureset defined > > I wasn't aware of that, I think having a set of predefined features > would be perfectly OK, just if one can reuse it: some thing like > \definefontfeature[include=arabic], may be some thing like that is > already implemented? indeed, for instance there is an arabic predefined (not sure if it's ok) which you can extend if needed: \definefontfeature[myarabic][arabic][rlig=yes] in typescripts and font definitions you can just use 'myarabic' \definedfont[arabtype*myarabic] \definetypeface.........[features=arabic] etc etc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________