From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/50684 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: MkIV italic correction? Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:48 +0200 Message-ID: <4A166D44.9020406@elvenkind.com> References: <20090520062507.GA4330@Fity> <4A152521.5070406@wxs.nl> <20090521115523.GA16671@Fity> <4A154212.8050908@elvenkind.com> <20090521133631.GA21845@Fity> 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 1242983818 2532 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2009 09:16:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:16:58 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 22 11:16:51 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 1M7Qry-0008BA-Ad for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:16:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B63281FE5F; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:16:49 +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 11148-04-4; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4498E1FE3F; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5DA1FE3F for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:58 +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 11148-04-3 for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:49 +0200 (CEST) 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 52C9B1FE3E for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from plane.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n4M9Fm7q030547 for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:48 +0200 Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by plane.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB3B802BDEC for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:48 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090319) In-Reply-To: <20090521133631.GA21845@Fity> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=82.95.203.226; country=NL; region=11; city=Rotterdam; latitude=51.9167; longitude=4.5000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.9167,4.5000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 229937753 - 6262be5aaeb4 - 20090522 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:50684 Archived-At: Corsair wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:59:14PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> Corsair wrote: >>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:55:45AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: >>>> open type fonts have no italic correction info (except in math) >>> But I notice that using the same fonts in XeTeX produces italic >>> correction. Is it fake? >> I guess it is using the glyph boundingbox. > > Thank you. This sounds reasonable. Is there any way I can achieve > this in MkIV? I'm currently using \def\/{\kern0.1em}, which is kinda > dirty... Hans could implement something like this easily, but whether it does much good is doubtful (that square box does not actually tell you where something sticks out, just that it does). Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________