Re: Making necessary OpenType features on by default

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Making necessary OpenType features on by default
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:53:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A2802A.3030704@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090222210356.GB16381@khaled-laptop>

Khaled Hosny wrote:

> I totally agree with you, more ever I hop that at some point in the
> future, just selecting certain language will be enough to get proper
> display of it, some thing like:
> 
> \mainlanguage[arabic]
> \startext
> أهلا بالعالم!
> \stoptext

to some extend that can already be done with dynamic features but it 
needs more research etc

> \setupbodyfont[arabic=foo,latin=bar]

for that we have the fallbacks mechanism; of course one can mix any font 
but even then it always demands tuning, i.e. foo and bar can look 
completely weird when combined without relative scaling (which is what 
the fallbacks do: thereone chooses one main font and overlays other 
fonts properly scaled)

Hans

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