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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [***SPAM***] Incorrect internal font processing
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:06:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529650D9.50208@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00b801ceeba9$0ee40cf0$2cac26d0$@tosovsky@email.cz>

On 11/27/2013 8:44 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> during my attempts to patch the Palatino's dotless 'i' I found that this
> font is parsed incorrectly by ConTeXt.
>
> Comparing index/name info of individual glyphs in the font software and
> resulting pala.tma file there is the following difference:
>
> Index | Name - font    | Name - tma
> 1110  | dotlessi.smcp  | i.sc        (1)
> 1170  | i.smcp         | i.sc        (2)
>
> (2) - this is a composite character which consist of dotlessi.smcp and dot.
>
> The first one should have IMHO a different name, e.g. dotlessi.sc (to keep
> conventions). The same name for two glyphs might be dangerous.

the font pala.ttf has two entries i.sc and i see no reference to *.smcp

(mtxrun --script --save pala.ttf)

naming of glyphs is somewhat fuzzy and not always consistentent in fonts 
but i fear there is not much we can do here (apart from using palatino 
nova instead)

Hans


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       reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <00b801ceeba9$0ee40cf0$2cac26d0$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2013-11-27 20:06 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-11-27 20:53   ` Jan Tosovsky
     [not found]   ` <00c801ceebb2$bf8762b0$3e962810$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2013-11-27 20:56     ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-27 21:20       ` Jan Tosovsky
     [not found]       ` <00c901ceebb6$7bf1ea30$73d5be90$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2013-11-27 21:32         ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-27 22:09           ` Jan Tosovsky
     [not found]           ` <00cd01ceebbd$4c248090$e46d81b0$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2013-11-27 22:35             ` Jan Tosovsky
     [not found]             ` <00d401ceebc0$e9299df0$bb7cd9d0$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2013-11-28  9:33               ` Hans Hagen
     [not found]             ` <5296739d.6494420a.551e.0b07SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2013-12-01  9:21               ` Khaled Hosny
2013-12-01 11:05                 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-12-08 20:19                   ` Jan Tosovsky
     [not found]                   ` <52a4d457.839d420a.34cb.0cc2SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2013-12-08 20:53                     ` Khaled Hosny
2013-11-27 19:44 Jan Tosovsky

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