From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: GSUB init, medi, fina and .fea file
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:36:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F295BEF.70709@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120201151535.GD3054@khaled-laptop>
On 1-2-2012 16:15, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 12:20:29AM +0100, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have the following OpenType feature archive (intended to use diferent
>> forms for initial and medial/final beta, theta and phi):
>
> Quoting my answer from a different list:
>
> If you are using init/fina features, it will only work with
> Arabic/Syriac and similar scripts where it is needed for basic
> shaping, most OpenType engines (including the one Hans wrote for
> LuaTeX) don't support them for other scripts. However, you can use
> contextual substitution to implement the word boundary logic into your
> OpenType code, but that is a bit tricky.
>
> But since this is an often requested feature, and given that Adobe apps
> support these features for Latin script, I think it is worth supporting
> them in ConTeXt as well, it should be bit simpler than the Arabic logic
> already supported.
Just wondering ... zapfino probably has these features so they should
work, although indeed the logic might be different. So, in order to
proceed we need some test font.
Hans
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
| www.pragma-pod.nl
-----------------------------------------------------------------
___________________________________________________________________________________
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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-01 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-31 23:20 Pablo Rodríguez
2012-02-01 15:15 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-02-01 15:36 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-02-01 16:16 ` Pablo Rodríguez
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4F295BEF.70709@wxs.nl \
--to=pragma@wxs.nl \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).