On 2013-11-27 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 11/27/2013 10:20 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> > On 2013-11-27 Hans Hagen wrote:
> >> On 11/27/2013 9:53 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> >>> On 2013-11-27 Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>>> On 11/27/2013 8:44 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> during my attempts to patch the Palatino's dotless 'i' I found 
> >>>>> that this font is parsed incorrectly by ConTeXt.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Comparing index/name info of individual glyphs in the font
> >>>>> software and resulting pala.tma file there is the following 
> >>>>> difference:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Index | Name - font    | Name - tma
> >>>>> 1110  | dotlessi.smcp  | i.sc        (1)
> >>>>> 1170  | i.smcp         | i.sc        (2)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The first one should have IMHO a different name, e.g. dotlessi.sc
> >>>>> (to keep conventions). The same name for two glyphs
> >>>>> might be dangerous.
> >>>>
> 
> the fact that there are two i.sc in the font is suspicious ... best
> check the font in fontforge ... one never know what kind of things
> other programs do

Hmm, FontForge glyphs naming corresponds to what we can observe in the
ConTeXt (doubled i.sc). My previous analysis was based on FontLab. I am
confused now...

Jan

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