Re: fontfeatures

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
> Am 06.08.2009 um 23:17 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> 
>> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>>
> 
>>> what happened with the option to set font features with more 
>>> memorizable names
>>> you mentioned in 
>>> http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/028330.html
>>> It would be nice to write \definefontfeature[mine][smallcaps=yes] 
>>> instead
>>> of \definefontfeature[mine][smcp=yes] where you have to know the four 
>>> letter
>>> code for the feature.
>>
>> as mapping is already kin dof present, if you add
>>
>> for k, v in pairs(to_features) do
>>    to_features[gsub(k," ","")] = v
>>    k = lower(k)
>>    to_features[k] = v
>>    to_features[gsub(k," ","")] = v
>> end
>>
>> to font-ott.lua then you can say:
>>
>> \starttext
> 
> We should restrict this to one alternative (besides smcp=yes) and
> the last variant seems to me like the context way (lowercase keys
> without spaces in it).
> 
>> % \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smcp=yes,script=latn]
>> % \definefontfeature[smallcaps][SmallCapitals=yes,script=latn]
>> % \definefontfeature[smallcaps][Small Capitals=yes,script=latn]
>> % \definefontfeature[smallcaps][small capitals=yes,script=latn]
>> \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smallcapitals=yes,script=latn]
>>
>> \definedfont[cambria*smallcaps] test
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> of course you need to memorize the huge feature name table
> 
> Why, you can make a table where there normal feature name (Uppercase 
> with spaces)
> is listed together with the normalized form (lowercase, no spaces) and 
> the four
> letter form.

well, your asked for smallcaps and got smallcapitals and remembering the 
  (sometimes long verbose names is no fun either)

we might even want to strip everything except a-z0-9

Terminal Forms #2
Above-Base Substitutions

Hans

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