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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: "Hamid,Idris" <Idris.Hamid@ColoState.EDU>,
	mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Inconsistent behavior: \addfontfeature and CLD local function
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 17:45:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bd5c213-c57c-78e8-60a6-e4c8099a06cf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a20b95b3-7d75-49d2-bcb3-8e9f45fd21b0@Spark>

On 8/20/2023 5:33 PM, Hamid,Idris wrote:
> Dear gang,
> 
> For \addfeature and the like, a virtual font feature defined in terms of a CLD local function behaves differently from other font features. MWE:
> 
> ==============
> \startluacode
> local function squeeze(tfmdata)
>      for k, v in next, tfmdata.characters do
>          v.width = 1.75 * (v.height or 0)
>          v.depth  = 1.75 * (v.depth  or 0)
>      end
> end
> 
> local specification = {
>      name        = "sqtfm",
>      description = "test",
>      manipulators = {
>          base = squeeze,
>          node = squeeze,
>      }
> }
because much more has to be done to satisfy the backend (liek advance 
with and such) .. you cannot just change dimensions on the fly for 
characters that could potentially be shared just as you can't change 
glyph dimension mid document

Hans

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-20 15:33 [NTG-context] " Hamid,Idris
2023-08-20 15:45 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2023-08-20 19:10   ` [NTG-context] " Hamid,Idris

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