From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: (bug?) wrong hyphenation with external fonts
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 08:47:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B45397.1090806@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B3BF14.5000606@wxs.nl>
On 02/04/2016 10:13 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 2/4/2016 9:27 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> [...]
>> The ff-ligature prevents hyphenation with TeX Gyre Pagella, but not with
>> MinionPro. (This is the opposite of what I reported before.)
>
> it depends on the complexity of the ligature .. ff is not so much an
> issue but you can have ff + i = ffi etc and we need to deal with kerning
> too (it depends a bit on how the opentype features are applied and we
> can handle quite some weird ligature implementations)
>
> the latest mechanism in context can deal with quite some situations but
> at some point has to make decisions (in order not to loose for instance
> kerns; double chained ligatures would result in way more overhead and is
> not worth the trouble)
>
> one might wonder if we never had these f[fil] ligatures of if ancient
> technology had provides hundreds of them combining upto 4 characters etc
> etc.
Many thanks for the explanation, Hans.
I see the decisions ConTeXt has to make may be compromises in some cases.
Many thanks for your help again,
Pablo
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-02 11:28 Pablo Rodriguez
2016-02-03 13:18 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-04 20:27 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-02-04 21:13 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-05 7:47 ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2016-02-05 8:42 ` Hans Hagen
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