From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: adjusting accents under slant
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:13:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB133E5.4030403@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.v39tx1cxpw6hmh@ishamid-pc>
On 1-11-2011 15:16, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> Dear Hans and gang,
>
> I got this working in mkii -- using other macros --, but mkiv is
> frustrating me:
>
> ======================
> %% Hans' bottom accent code
> \unprotect
> \unexpanded\def\bottomaccent#1#2#3#4#5% down right slantcorrection
> accent char
> {\dontleavehmode % why this align mess
> \vtop
> {\forgetall
> \baselineskip\zeropoint
> \lineskip#1%
> \everycr\emptytoks
> \tabskip\zeropoint
> \lineskiplimit\zeropoint
> \setbox0\hbox{#4}%
> \halign
> {##\crcr\hbox{#5}\crcr
> \hidewidth
> \hskip#2\wd0
> \hskip-#3\slantperpoint % in plain 1ex * dimenless value
> \vbox to .2ex{\box0\vss}\hidewidth
> \crcr}}}
>
> \unexpanded\def\buildtextbottomdot
> {\bottomaccent{0ex}{4}{5}{\kern.1em\textbottomdot}}
> \let\d\buildtextbottomdot
> \protect
>
> \defineactivecharacter ḥ {\d{h}}
>
> \starttext
> ḥ {\it ḥ}
> \stoptext
> ======================
>
> I need to adjust the horizontal position of the dot under the slanted
> char. I would assume the third parameter would control it but nothing
> seems to work.
>
> Of course LM does not look so bad but I'm using a different font so this
> is just an illustration.
\slantperpoint
is a rather traditional tex/font parameter and not present in opentype
fonts so you have to hard code something there
you could try \definefontfeature[default][default][compose=yes] assuming
that you have the bottom accent available
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2011-11-01 14:16 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-11-02 12:13 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-11-03 1:56 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
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