From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos@web.de>
Subject: Re: Unsupported coverage contextpos for 'RQD ' Greek Caps after Accents Positioning-1
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:16:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4D4428.9060206@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4D3CE5.2090004@web.de>
On 28-2-2012 21:45, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> On 02/28/2012 01:56 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Hans Hagen<pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>> On 26-2-2012 20:42, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> ¡>>> On 02/26/2012 07:50 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The font is fromhttp://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html .
>>>>> The log says :
>>>>> fonts> otf prepare> unsupported coverage contextpos for
>>>>> 'RQD ' Greek Caps after Accents Positioning-1
>>>>>
>>>>> Thomas ?
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I have absolutely no clue what this is supposed to mean... I'm
>>>> not even sure if the message comes from the core or Wolfgang's module?
>>>> All I can say is: Theano-Didot is also supported by the ancientgreek
>>>> module, and the font works normally here:
>>>
>>> Anyhow, we're not going to look into it if there is no proper test file
>>> showing the problem. We don't even know what features are involved.
>
> Dear Luigi, Thomas and Hans,
>
> I asked to the font creator (I had other issues with the font to report)
> and he told me that this is actually a positive kerning in the combining
> diacritical mark so they look exactly like the precombined characters
> (so that Ἄ looks like of ῎Α).
>
> I don't think it makes any sense to implement such a feature. And the
> font creator may change this to the kern feature in a future release.
>
> I hope it helps,
well, if some feature is not supported then we need to solve it but we
can wait till we run into a better defined case next time
Hans
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-26 18:50 luigi scarso
2012-02-26 19:42 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-02-28 12:14 ` Hans Hagen
2012-02-28 12:56 ` luigi scarso
2012-02-28 20:45 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2012-02-28 21:16 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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