From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:00:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52923EA7.2090302@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131124175004.GA4956@khaled-laptop>
On 11/24/2013 6:50 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:48:05PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 11/24/2013 6:38 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:31:27PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>> On 11/24/2013 6:09 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> shows me a "little sign" above the word
>>>>
>>>> the only issue i see is that this otf font has 2048 units and gets scaled
>>>> wrong (in luatex's backend probably)
>>>
>>> It is actually a TTF font but the extension confuses ConTeXt (we
>>> discussed this very issue before).
>>
>> afaik it passes the right unit value so the backend gets confused ... okay,
>> we could probably specify a font to be truetype when units ~= 1000 but still
>> ... i have no problem with forcing
>>
>> if units ~= 1000 and format ~= "truetype" then
>> properties.format = "truetype"
>> end
>>
>> if we can assume all opentype fonts to be 1000
>
> No we can't. What we really need is a way for the fontloader to expose
> the format in the font table, because it already knows it.
ok, so we need a "format" key in the raw font table ("truetype" or
"opentype")
Hans
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-24 15:41 "H. Özoguz"
2013-11-24 17:09 ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-24 17:31 ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-24 17:38 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-11-24 17:48 ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-24 17:50 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-11-24 18:00 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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