Am 25.08.2010 um 12:46 schrieb Khaled Hosny: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:17:13AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 25-8-2010 10:05, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >>> >>> Am 24.08.2010 um 20:37 schrieb Oliver Buerschaper: >>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Today I started preparations for my activities at the ConTeXt meeting. >>>>> >>>>> There are two small lua tutorials in the program, and I am looking >>>>> for input on both. There is one that is supposed to be a general >>>>> beginner's introduction, and one specifically about fonts. >>>>> >>>>> For both, I am looking for input on what subjects I should cover? >>>>> >>>>> Since both tutorials will end up as articles/wiki pages, it makes >>>>> sense to ask everybody on the list for input (but requests by actual >>>>> attendees will be scored considerably higher). >>>> >>>> Perhaps some example to modify a font at runtime? I don't know whether >>>> that's possible at all, but if yes, it would be great to see how one could >>>> modify kerning tables etc. Often a font needs to be groomed but its >>>> license places some restrictions on modifying the file itself... >>> >>> >>> +1 >> >> This is somewhat tricky. Actually I had a mechanism for that but I >> discarded the code. However there will be a feature like that some >> day as it needs a rather tight integration in the core of context's >> font handling. (btw, there is a feature for type 1 fonts that adds >> 'missing' kerns based on shape codes). > > And there is font feature files, which, when not broken :), look the > same to the OpenType handling code as if the feature were in the > original font i.e. no special handling needed.
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/fontfeaturefiles Steffen ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
