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From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: composing characters in MKIV
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:14:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikSHOOKzXD-juWf8An-+rkt2Ok_ZZE8H5ZPFwHc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA4EFB7.4070307@wxs.nl>

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 22:14, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> \starttext
>
> \definefontfeature[default][default][compose=yes]
>
> \setupbodyfont[lucida]

Oh, I have tried that; actually I did
    \definefontfeature[default][liga=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,compose=yes]
as well as \addff{compose}, but it had zero effect since I used that
*after* \setupbodyfont instead of using it before. This was a bit
weird since features for OpenType fonts can be switched on and off at
any given time and I didn't realize that order was important.

> \startTEXpage
>    mojča MOJČA
> \stopTEXpage
>
> \stoptext
>
> ok, positioning could be improved I guess but so far no one bothered about
> this feature

(I started fixing vf fonts of Lucida for pdfTeX, but I'm not sure how
to proceed; and now it may not be needed any more.)

There are two problems. Even \buildtextaccent creates an ugly č and
that dates back to Knuth's TeX (TeX assumes that every letter is
symetric which holds for just about any letter but c). But I agree
that this is highly esoteric request.

However compose=yes creates an unacceptable uppercase Č, at least in
Lucida, much worse than what TeX does (and already TeX does it badly).

Mojca
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-30 18:31 Mojca Miklavec
2010-09-30 20:14 ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-30 21:14   ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2010-09-30 21:21     ` Hans Hagen

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