From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/79666 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:24 +0100 Message-ID: <50B8D3A4.8050809@wxs.nl> References: <50B85B0E.1060703@web.de> <50B878C7.8080607@wxs.nl> <20121130141313.GD24572@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354290093 27114 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2012 15:41:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:41:33 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 30 16:41:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TeSim-0006A3-SG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF8810323; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:33 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id o76oHeSgA6u3; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7783810328; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1215310328 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:29 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id nuU-ozlblgOh for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD7CD10323 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id qAUFfQSY026185 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:26 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.1c) with ESMTP (TLS) id 5436-1713362 for multiple; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:41:20 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: <20121130141313.GD24572@khaled-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=16; city=Zeewolde; latitude=52.3302; longitude=5.5364; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3302,5.5364&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06ItPFqBf - 64f20b8ed9db - 20121130 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:79666 Archived-At: 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). 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