Re: simple question on kerning activation

["Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos@web.de>]

On 27/11/12 23:10, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thank you very much, Hans, Wolfgang and Luigi for your help.

Sorry for the messages, but I used ConTeXt to check whether old
traditional kerning was enabled on FreeSerif fonts (not as OpenType
features). This is actually for an ereader.

As far as I know, I have to enable the Latin script in ConTeXt in all
the fonts I use with include OT features. That's fine for me.

What I couldn't understand before was that I was getting less kerns even
with the OpenType feature enabled. I took me a while to understand that
those kerns that weren't showing off in my file (my guess) were removed
in the latest version of FreeSerif.

BTW, I need to enable the Latin script even for features that belong to
other scripts, such as in Theano Didot (those contextual alternatives
and stylistic set 11 belong to the Greek script):

\usemodule[simplefonts]
\definefontfeature[default][default][script=latn,calt=yes,ss11=yes]
\setmainfont[Theano Didot]
\starttext
\startTEXpage[offset=10pt]
βάρβαροι θαυμασθεὶς
\stopTEXpage
\stoptext

Many thanks again for your help,


Pablo
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