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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: kerning with buggy libertine
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:33:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FF7F95.1010800@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130804134339.GA4609@phlegethon>

On 8/4/2013 3:43 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> this is a bug report thanks to Khaled:
>
>    http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/126650/14066
>
> In short: the font loader applies the kerning of libertine
> version 5.3.0 even though this appears to be broken in the font.
> Context translation of the example:
>
>    \definefontfeature [kerning] [mode=node,smcp=yes,kern=yes]
>    \definefont [libertineserifsmallcaps] [file:LinLibertine_R.otf*kerning]
>    \definefont [libertinesanssmallcaps]  [file:LinBiolinum_R.otf*kerning]
>
>    \def\demotext{Vacillate Vaccine Vapour Vanish Va...}
>
>    \starttext
>      {\libertineserifsmallcaps \demotext}\par
>      {\libertinesanssmallcaps  \demotext}\par
>    \stoptext
>
> (Doesn’t occur in base mode.) The technical details are in the
> thread Khaled references.

     \showotfcomposition{file:LinLibertine_R.otf*kerning}{+1}{Va} \page
     \showotfcomposition{file:LinBiolinum_R.otf*kerning} {+1}{Va} \page

You need to be more explicit (which font, where to download the 
problematic one, etc ... i downloaded the 5.3 version - i think - of 
ll). In what sense is it broken in the font?

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-05 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-04 13:43 Philipp Gesang
2013-08-05 10:33 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-08-07  8:08   ` Philipp Gesang
2013-08-07 12:37     ` Hans Hagen
2013-08-07 13:51       ` Philipp Gesang

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