From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \sh@ft in luatex
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:24:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.t3ylmdf7nx1yh1@your-b27fb1c401> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4772AC62.60507@wxs.nl>
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:32:50 -0700, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>
>> Two things:
>>
>> 1. The \sh@ft macro (from TeXBook, p.~356) does not work in luatex (see
>> test file, pdftex works);
>>
>> 2. In any case: Is there a better way to do this (see test file)?
>
> as taco mentioned ... most open type fonts have no italic correction
>
> automatically figuring it out is not always an option, compare (in
> pdftex):
>
> \sl \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A
>
> \bs \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A
>
> \it \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A
>
> i can imagine that we start building a database with additional font
> parameters
I spent a few hours on a workaround. Attached is my temporary code for
Arabic transliteration. I found a way to define U-02BE and U-02BF for
Latin Modern (thanks to Wolfgang and Peter for helping me with \ifx). It
does work well but feel free to suggest improvements!
(A bug: \defineactivecharacter ḻ {\~l} does not work if \showboxes is
invoked; weird)
Best wishes
Idris
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2007-12-26 19:32 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-26 20:24 ` Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
2007-12-26 20:47 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-26 22:26 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-12-27 0:12 ` Hans Hagen
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