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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: glyph substitution
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:28:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <571A8972.4010004@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <571A0C65.1020808@fehige.de>

On 4/22/2016 1:35 PM, Thomas Fehige wrote:
> Is there a way to tell ConTeXt to use one glyph where it would on its
> own use another one? Two examples:
>
> - In the font "Purisa Medium" the hyphen comes out as a line that is two
> or three times fatter and even a little longer than the m-dash. That is
> clearly wrong, and probably the font designer's fault. Other than that,
> the font has its merits as a not-too-sweet or crazy handwriting font.
> I'll need to tell ConTeXt to either scale that monster-hyphen down or to
> use a different glyph altogether, maybe even from another font.

you can define your own font .. search in the test suite for 
fallbacks*.tex etc as well as extensions-*.tex

> - As mentioned in an earlier post, in an \sc group I need the lowercase
> ß to be replaced with its smallcaps version, which is contained in the
> font but not accessible via any of its otf features.

see s-lingual-de.mkiv

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-22 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-19  7:10 uppercase, small caps, numerals and German capital sharp s Thomas Fehige
2016-04-19 12:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-04-19 12:46   ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-20 14:03   ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-20 14:25     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-04-20 21:25       ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-20 21:27       ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-22 11:35       ` glyph substitution Thomas Fehige
2016-04-22 20:28         ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-04-25  9:53           ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-25 12:48           ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-25 15:49             ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-25 18:12             ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-25 20:44               ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-04-26  8:42                 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-27 14:27                 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-27 15:10                   ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-29  7:44                     ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-29  7:56                       ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-29  8:38                     ` Test Suite Fonts "extensions-001" Thomas Fehige
2016-04-29  9:05                       ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-05-03  9:22                         ` Setting up TeXworks Thomas Fehige
2016-05-06  8:04                           ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-05-06 11:39                             ` L.S.-Soc&Gam
2016-05-16 15:46                               ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-16 15:55                                 ` Jean-Pierre Delange
2016-05-17 11:16                                   ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-17 12:39                                     ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-17 12:59                                       ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-19 14:09                                         ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-17 13:22                                       ` Jean-Pierre Delange
2016-05-19 15:16                                         ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-19 16:15                                           ` Jean-Pierre Delange
2016-05-07 10:49                             ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-09 11:02                               ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-15 19:29                                 ` Thomas Fehige
2016-05-16 14:34                                   ` ConTeXt and Scite Thomas Fehige
2016-05-03  9:51                         ` Setting up TeXworks Thomas Fehige
2016-05-03 10:21                           ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-05-03 13:01                             ` Thomas Fehige
2016-04-25 20:47             ` glyph substitution Wolfgang Schuster
2016-04-26  7:42               ` Thomas Fehige

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