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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: More ebgaramond issues (newotf, finding fonts and kerning)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 13:19:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <563754D0.5070201@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42b25abef9ae4b34b565626e714b684c@gmail.com>

On 11/2/2015 8:32 AM, josephcanedo@gmail.com wrote:
> Tried locally on W8.1/64 and otherwise same ConTeXt and EBGaramond files
> I see similar issues (expect maybe kerning is done with new otf loading).

i have a fix in the next beta but keep in mind that eb is a moving 
target and that each version of the font is different

Hans

>
> Sent from Windows Mail
>
> *From:* Rik Kabel <mailto:context@rik.users.panix.com>
> *Sent:* ‎Monday‎, ‎November‎ ‎2‎, ‎2015 ‎3‎:‎10‎ ‎AM
> *To:* ntg-context@ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>
>
> Three problems with ebgaramond.
>
>   * With the new otf loading facility, kerning is not done.
>   * With the new otf loading facility, the regular 8pt face is not
>     found. If one is changing font size via \tfxx, the font size is not
>     changed. If one is changing font size via \switchbodyfont[8pt],
>     Latin Modern 8pt is substituted.
>   * With the oldotf module loaded kerning is as expected for the 12pt
>     regular face, the 8pt regular face, and the 8pt italic face. The
>     12pt italic face, however, is not kerned.
>
>     %\usemodule[oldotf]% uncomment to see previous otf handling
>     \showfontkerns
>     \setupbodyfont[ebgaramond]
>     \def\Test{Vowel Tavern Tomato {\it Vowel Tavern Tomato}\par}
>     \starttext
>     \Test
>     {\tfxx
>     \Test}
>     \switchtobodyfont[8pt]
>     \Test
>     \stoptext
>
> This was tested on W10/64 using ConTeXt  ver: 2015.10.09 21:28 MKIV
> beta  fmt: 2015.11.1  int: english/english, with EBGaramond files
> version 0.016 (April 2014) installed in C:\Windows\Fonts. Same results
> with luajittex (This is LuajitTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live
> 2015/W32TeX) (rev 5238)) and luatex (This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.81.1
> (TeX Live 2015/W32TeX) (rev 5442)).
>
> Is this a problem with my font installation, or is it a general problem?
>
> --
> Rik
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-02 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-02  2:10 Rik Kabel
2015-11-02  7:32 ` josephcanedo
2015-11-02 12:19   ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-11-02 15:03     ` Rik Kabel

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