Re: [NTG-context] Selectfont: extend and slant features

2014-03-05 Thread Joshua Krämer
On 2014-03-02, 0:59, Hans Hagen wrote: you can use dynamic features so apply additional ones any moment, but some features line slanting and extending are font instance bound as there the dimensions change and the abckend has to do some work Thanks, I understand. Joshua Krämer

Re: [NTG-context] Selectfont: extend and slant features

2014-03-05 Thread Joshua Krämer
On 2014-03-01, 12:48, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Is there any real purpose for this feature? The letters in the second and third line don’t look beautiful because the horizontal and vertical strokes don’t match. As I said, I'm working on a typeface design. When one tries to optically match an

Re: [NTG-context] Selectfont: extend and slant features

2014-03-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/5/2014 3:19 PM, Joshua Krämer wrote: On 2014-03-01, 12:48, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Is there any real purpose for this feature? The letters in the second and third line don’t look beautiful because the horizontal and vertical strokes don’t match. Another use-case for the extend feature

Re: [NTG-context] Selectfont: extend and slant features

2014-03-05 Thread Joshua Krämer
On 2014-03-05, 15:08, Hans Hagen wrote: On 3/5/2014 3:19 PM, Joshua Krämer wrote: Another use-case for the extend feature could be to stretch/compress a line (e.g. a title) to the desired length. If the line is only a little bit too long or too short, compressing or stretching all the

Re: [NTG-context] Selectfont: extend and slant features

2014-03-01 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 28.02.2014 um 20:41 schrieb Joshua Krämer joshua.krae...@gmail.com: On 2014-02-26, 23:13, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2. When you apply your “testfeature” to a certain font alternative (e.g. italic) it will work. [...] Thanks. It's a bit inconvenient, because for each feature you want

Re: [NTG-context] Selectfont: extend and slant features

2014-03-01 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/1/2014 12:48 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 28.02.2014 um 20:41 schrieb Joshua Krämer joshua.krae...@gmail.com: On 2014-02-26, 23:13, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2. When you apply your “testfeature” to a certain font alternative (e.g. italic) it will work. [...] Thanks. It's a bit

Re: [NTG-context] Selectfont: extend and slant features

2014-02-28 Thread Joshua Krämer
On 2014-02-26, 23:13, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2. When you apply your “testfeature” to a certain font alternative (e.g. italic) it will work. [...] Thanks. It's a bit inconvenient, because for each feature you want to apply, you have to define a separate typeface. Is it a bug, or is it

[NTG-context] Selectfont: extend and slant features

2014-02-26 Thread Joshua Krämer
Dear list, the (fake) extend and slant features seem to be missing with Selectfont. Will they be made available sometimes in the future? Or am I simply doing something wrong? With simplefonts, they work. \definefontfeature [mainfeature] [default] [onum=yes] \definefontfeature [testfeature]

Re: [NTG-context] Selectfont: extend and slant features

2014-02-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.02.2014 um 18:18 schrieb Joshua Krämer joshua.krae...@gmail.com: Dear list, the (fake) extend and slant features seem to be missing with Selectfont. Will they be made available sometimes in the future? Or am I simply doing something wrong? With simplefonts, they work.