Re: simple question on kerning activation

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: simple question on kerning activation
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:10:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B53A3C.7000307@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38A8521E-D5CD-44D2-BFF2-0DC40F7E4129@gmail.com>

On 11/27/2012 10:58 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 27.11.2012 um 22:43 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez <oinos@web.de>:
>
>> On 27/11/12 22:34, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>> Am 27.11.2012 um 20:34 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez <oinos@web.de>:
>>> [...]
>>>> Probably my font is newer (from
>>>> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/freefont-ttf-20120503.zip).
>>>>
>>>> I think there is no file clash, since ConTeXt standalone doesn't provide the font
>>>
>>> The font files from the gnu page have no kerning but the files from
>>> http://de.fonts2u.com/free-serif.schriftart have kerning information.
>>
>> Many thanks for your reply, Wolfgang.
>>
>> I'd like to report this to the font developer (he has assured me that
>> the fonts have kerning).
>>
>> How have you discovered that the Savannah FreeSerif fonts have no
>> kerning info?
>
> That’s not what I wanted to write. I had the same thought as Hans with the missing
> for the “default” script (AFAIR this was also a problem with other fonts in the past)
> but I wanted to test it first but he was faster than me.

Normally context will automatically fall back on latn but does so by 
looking at the feature list. These fonts support so many scripts that 
it's not possible.

You (pablo) can report to the font designer that for features like 
kerning a dflt,dflt pair makes sense.

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