Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:05:40PM +0100, Arno Trautmann wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just found out about the rand feature (e.g. in the Punk Nova font) and
>> wondered if there was a fontspec key for it. Would be nice to have
>> something like \fontspec[Random]{fontname} instead of using
>> \fontspec{fontnamed:rand}. Is this planned/possible?
>
> There is no fontspec key for it right now, but should not be hard to
> add. In the meantime you should use RawFeatures={+rand}, appending
> features to font name is highly discouraged.Ok; why? The greatest effect of such a key would surely be the documentation of it. I had to guess it while trying to play around with the Punk Nova. (That would make a great example in the documentation, too ;) ) >> Something quite different: What are the reasons that there is no support >> für microtype in fontspec so far? As far as I can see, microtypographic >> features are possible by setting \pdfprotrudechars and \pdfadjustspacing >> and loading fonts with :protrusion=default and :expansion=default. But I >> guess there must be something more or else it would already be present >> in fontspec, wouldn't it? Or is it difficult to use non-default values >> and therefore no support? > > Mostly because I couldn't figure out a good user interface for it, I > hear microtype now works with luatex/fontspec, but I did not try it > myself. An undocumented feature of luaotfload is the support for 'obpd' > feature, so if the font have set protrusion values for glyphs it can be > used, I've not seen any fonts using it but I intend to use it for my > Arabic fonts (it is the only way to set protrusion of unencoded glyphs > in a portable way). Ok; would be nice if it could also be documented ;) cheers Arno
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