From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: font trickery
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 01:55:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5196C35E.9050700@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130515164114.GA23356@khaled-laptop>
On 5/15/2013 6:41 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 08:51:28AM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
>> Hi Georg,
>>
>> On Wed, 15 May 2013 00:09:22 -0600, Georg Duffner
>> <g.duffner@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I’d prefer to stay with the AFF syntax which is well established.
>>
>> I wonder if the latest, virtually frozen FontForge supports the
>> current AFF syntax or still uses an earlier version. Before AFF was
>> complete George added the missing functionality but Adobe did not
>> accept his additions. The former luatex support was probably based
>> on George's modifications to the AFF syntax.
>>
>> Hans and Taco know better, but I suppose a newer implementation of
>> AFF in mkiv could be done in lua without touching the binary.
>
> Right, the version of FontForge included in LuaTeX uses the old syntax,
> FontForge has dropped it for the new Adobe syntax for few years now, but
> it didn’t make its way into LuaTeX.
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
>
>> But anyway, this may very well be beyond Hans' current plans for
>> font trickery, but it's fun to discuss possibilities.
>
> I think there is already some (not documented way) to achieve the same
> effect in pure Lua code (Hans uses it to implement tlig and the likes).
indeed. however the biggest challenge in patching a font runtime is
where to inject the patches in the look up sequence ...
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-17 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-14 18:01 Hans Hagen
2013-05-14 22:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2013-05-15 6:09 ` Georg Duffner
2013-05-15 14:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2013-05-15 16:41 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-05-17 23:55 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-05-18 0:19 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
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