From: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: font trickery
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 16:51:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.ww3i22w4pw6hmh@ishamid-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51927C00.3070206@wxs.nl>
Hi Hans,
On Tue, 14 May 2013 12:01:36 -0600, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> I'm on-and-off working on the more technical font manual and in the
> process also check some old code i've laying around (deciding on what to
> include and not). I'm also revising the tracer styles.
>
> Which makes me wonder: are there specific additional features that one
> would like to see in context (mkiv only of course) with respect to font
> support?
This may be beyond the scope of your current plans, but worth considering:
It would be nice to have a mechanism where we can override/add opentype
gsub and gpos features. Early on in the history of luatex we once had a
mechanism that did this using FontForge's version of Adobe Feature Files.
From what I understand, the AFF syntax is finally mature and supports all
lookup types:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko/topic_feature_file_syntax.html
Or maybe we have our own syntax in lua, goodies etc. Anyway, a way to
control/override opentype gsub and gpos behavior would be interesting.
Even if a total controller is too ambitious/unwieldy, just being able to
do a few basic gsub/gpos tricks may be useful for, e.g., bugs in the font.
Anyway, something to think about.
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-14 18:01 Hans Hagen
2013-05-14 22:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد [this message]
2013-05-15 6:09 ` Georg Duffner
2013-05-15 14:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2013-05-15 16:41 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-05-17 23:55 ` Hans Hagen
2013-05-18 0:19 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
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