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From: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس   سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: font trickery
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 18:19:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.ww867dohpw6hmh@ishamid-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5196C35E.9050700@wxs.nl>

On Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:10 -0600, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> indeed. however the biggest challenge in patching a font runtime is  
> where to inject the patches in the look up sequence ...

Indeed, I was thinking exactly the same thing! It needs some thought...  
The simplest and safest idea may be to stack user-defined gsub lookups  
after, and only after, the gsub lookups in the font are complete. Ditto  
for gpos.

Best wishes
Idris
-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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      reply	other threads:[~2013-05-18  0:19 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]

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