[NTG-context] mkiv and non-universal sans-serif kerning
Greetings, long-time reader, first-time writer here. I've been using ConTeXt for about a year and, until now, been able to solve all my problems using the wiki or the mailing list, so a keep up the good work! is certainly in order. ;-) My problem concerns kerning in mkiv, which apparently doesn't work for all sans-serif fonts. It does seem to work for TeX Gyre Heros and Latin Modern Sans, but not, as an example of a font shipped with ConTeXt, DejaVu. Here's a short testcase: \usetypescript[dejavu] \setupbodyfont[dejavu,12pt,rm] \starttext Token (kerned) T{\char200C}oken (unkerned) {\ss Token (kerned)} {\ss T{\char200C}oken (unkerned)} \stoptext (U+200C is the zero width non-joiner, rather useful as an invisible breaker of kerns and ligatures.) Expected behavior: first line To kerned, second line To not kerned, third line To kerned, fourth line To not kerned. Differences to expected behavior on my machine (ConTeXt minimals 2011.07.22 01:29): third line To not kerned either. Thanks for the assistance in advance! Cheers, ~~ Ondra Hošek ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] mkiv and non-universal sans-serif kerning
On 22-7-2011 2:56, Ondřej Hošek wrote: Greetings, long-time reader, first-time writer here. I've been using ConTeXt for about a year and, until now, been able to solve all my problems using the wiki or the mailing list, so a keep up the good work! is certainly in order. ;-) My problem concerns kerning in mkiv, which apparently doesn't work for all sans-serif fonts. It does seem to work for TeX Gyre Heros and Latin Modern Sans, but not, as an example of a font shipped with ConTeXt, DejaVu. Here's a short testcase: \usetypescript[dejavu] \setupbodyfont[dejavu,12pt,rm] \starttext Token (kerned) T{\char200C}oken (unkerned) {\ss Token (kerned)} {\ss T{\char200C}oken (unkerned)} \stoptext (U+200C is the zero width non-joiner, rather useful as an invisible breaker of kerns and ligatures.) \zwnj Expected behavior: first line To kerned, second line To not kerned, third line To kerned, fourth line To not kerned. works ok here Differences to expected behavior on my machine (ConTeXt minimals 2011.07.22 01:29): third line To not kerned either. the current version has some heuristics for mode (some fonts need node mode) and script/language (some fonts don't have dflt defined) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl - temptemp.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] mkiv and non-universal sans-serif kerning
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 21:28, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: the current version has some heuristics for mode (some fonts need node mode) and script/language (some fonts don't have dflt defined) Ah, thanks for the hint. Explicitly setting script=latn in the default font feature solves the problem. Cheers, ~~ Ondra ___ 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 ___