On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:24:08PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 24-2-2010 17:31, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 08:57:23PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>If a real test suite is needed, I can prepare a special copy of one of > >>TeX Gyre fonts for this purpose. > > > >I went ahead and patched texgyre pagella to implement lfbd/rtbd features > >(based on palatino protrusion values from microtype package), attached > >the font file and the "dirty" python script used to build it. > > to get full protrusion i need to multiply by two so i think that it > makes most sense to use full protrusion for punctuation and hyphens > and if less is wanted use a factor of 0.5
But most of the time full protrusion isn't needed, right? I think full protrusion (assuming this is hanging punctuation) can be done in a generic way; protruding the glyph so that all of its bounding box is in the margin, and using font stored protrusion values for regular setting. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list dev-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context
