[NTG-context] Problem with fontdata.cache being set to no in font-def.lua

2009-06-17 Thread Yanrui Li
Hi Hans, I am testing comperssion of Chinese punctuations according boundingbox. But I found that the fontdata.cache in font-def.lua is set to no, so I can't get the boundingbox information of those punctuation glyphs in my module. I want to know why set to no as default. Is it for efficiency?

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with fontdata.cache being set to no in font-def.lua

2009-06-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Yanrui Li wrote: Hi Hans, I am testing comperssion of Chinese punctuations according boundingbox. But I found that the fontdata.cache in font-def.lua is set to no, so I can't get the boundingbox information of those punctuation glyphs in my module. I want to know why set to no as default. Is it

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with fontdata.cache being set to no in font-def.lua

2009-06-17 Thread Yanrui Li
2009/6/17 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl Yanrui Li wrote: Hi Hans, I am testing comperssion of Chinese punctuations according boundingbox. But I found that the fontdata.cache in font-def.lua is set to no, so I can't get the boundingbox information of those punctuation glyphs in my module. I

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with fontdata.cache being set to no in font-def.lua

2009-06-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Yanrui Li wrote: the cache option mentioned there is not meant for using, just for debugging (i.e. for myself) I have printed the the shared descriptions with the following code fragment: function f4zhcn.pre_linebreak_filter (head, groupcode) for t in node.traverse(head) do if

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with fontdata.cache being set to no in font-def.lua

2009-06-17 Thread Yanrui Li
2009/6/18 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: Yanrui Li wrote: the cache option mentioned there is not meant for using, just for debugging (i.e. for myself) I have printed the the shared descriptions with the following code fragment: function f4zhcn.pre_linebreak_filter (head, groupcode)   for t

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with fontdata.cache being set to no in font-def.lua

2009-06-17 Thread Yanrui Li
2009/6/18 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl Yanrui Li wrote: the cache option mentioned there is not meant for using, just for debugging (i.e. for myself) I have printed the the shared descriptions with the following code fragment: function f4zhcn.pre_linebreak_filter (head, groupcode)   for t in

[NTG-context] math and palatino

2009-06-17 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Dear gang, [mkiv only] What is the best available math font for use with Pagella/Palatino? [Hint: it's not LM] I had to roll my own typescript so what I need to fill in is the commented line below \definetypeface [pagella_ar] [rm] [serif] [pagella_arabic] % [pagella_arabic] %