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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B8D3A4.8050809@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121130141313.GD24572@khaled-laptop>

On 11/30/2012 3:13 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:58:25AM +0100, Steve White wrote:
>> There was a suggestion that Latin kerns should be activated by
>> {script,lang}={dflt,dflt}.  Let me ask, should Devanagari kerns also be
>> activated by {dflt, dflt}?  If not, why?
>
> My own policy is, unless a feature must be restricted to a specific
> script/language (e.g. a locale-specific feature), all features should be
> assigned to *all* scripts in the font, including DFLT/dflt, because
> there is technical reason for doing otherwise and it would help
> applications not doing automatic script/language itemisation (both
> OpenType-enabled TeX engines, for example).

That makes much sense (unless a font has hundreds of different lookups 
for multiple features which could slow down basic processing).

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-30 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-30  7:06 Pablo Rodríguez
2012-11-30  9:13 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30  9:58   ` Steve White
2012-11-30 10:18     ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 11:40       ` Steve White
2012-11-30 12:24         ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 14:25           ` Steve White
2012-11-30 15:30             ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 15:38               ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 18:12                 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 18:22                   ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 19:37                   ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 21:25                     ` Steve White
2012-11-30 22:02                       ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 23:57                         ` Pablo Rodríguez
2012-12-01 16:22                       ` Steve White
2012-12-01 19:22                         ` luigi scarso
2012-12-01 19:38                           ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-12-01 19:46                             ` luigi scarso
2012-12-01 19:58                               ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-12-01 21:09                                 ` luigi scarso
2012-12-02  9:58                                   ` Steve White
2012-12-02 13:12                                     ` Khaled Hosny
2012-12-02 14:32                                       ` Steve White
2012-12-02 14:49                                         ` Khaled Hosny
2012-12-02 10:10                           ` Steve White
2012-12-02 10:24                             ` luigi scarso
2012-12-02 10:43                               ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-12-02 11:08                               ` Steve White
2012-12-02 11:48                                 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 15:43         ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 14:13     ` Khaled Hosny
2012-11-30 15:41       ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-11-30 16:05     ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 16:39       ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-30 18:08         ` Steve White
2012-11-30 19:07           ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-30 21:24             ` Steve White
2012-11-30 18:34       ` Steve White

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