From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "N. Lindenhayn" <mehl@lindenhayn.com>
Subject: Re: LuaTeX + microtype: Small Caps vs. Letter Spacing
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:33:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF8ECD3.5030301@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF8E7ED.5080003@lindenhayn.com>
On 15-6-2011 7:12, N. Lindenhayn wrote:
>>> Ah. Ok that explains it. This means that in latex/fontspec it works
>>> with \setmainfont[Renderer=basic]{...}.
>>
>> I guess so (if basic == basemode). There's nothing wrong with basemode
>> in such cases.
>
> thanks Ulrike and Hans for the comments. It works fine with
> Renderer=basic, although I'm not sure what the side effects of switching
> from Full to Basic will be (it's not a particularly well documented
> feature, at least in the fontspec manual).
In most cases a basic mode is good enough when you want to do
intercharacter spacing as it makes only sense for scripts that have
isolated glyphs (even ligatures are to be avoided).
> Sorry for posting to the wrong list; I was thinking about putting this
> in the Lua list, but I remembered someone saying anything Lua related is
> welcome on the ConTeXt list as well... which it probably is, but
> LuaLa(!)TeX is a different story, obviously. I'll try to gather more
> info on the renderer issue, wait a day or two for more comments here,
> and then will post the problem to the Lua list.
it's no problem at all posting here, it's just that you get more respons
when there is a context example given
Hans
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2011-06-14 19:52 ` N. Lindenhayn
2011-06-15 7:33 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-15 8:59 ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-06-15 9:48 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-15 10:51 ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-06-15 11:31 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-15 17:12 ` N. Lindenhayn
2011-06-15 17:33 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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