On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 3:00 PM Marcel Fabian Krüger <t...@2krueger.de>
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> in `writefont0.c` and `writefont2.c`, `ff_get_ttc_index` is called to
> determine the index of the font in a font collection. This uses the
> original filename from fd->fm->ff_name and therefore does not respect
> lookups done using the find_opentype_file etc. callbacks.
>
> In writefont0.c, this could be fixed relativly easily by passing using
> cur_file_name, the name after the callback, instead. But even than there
> are remianing problems because this still wouldn't respect
> read_..._file callbacks. So implementing this correctly is quite tricky
> and it also isn't really necessary in most cases: Especially when using
> Lua-loaded fonts, the code creating the font needs to know the index
> anyway. So maybe an approach like in Khaled Hosny's HarfTeX could be
> used: Allow a Lua-loaded font to explicitly set the index and only use
> ff_get_ttc_index if this index isn't set. Then backward-compatibility is
> kept but the actually used index selection can be influenced using Lua.
> (HarfTeX implemented this in
>
> https://github.com/khaledhosny/harftex/commit/caded3e80f106687c84f9613aa318cb3023a1422
> )
>

done in  revision 7222 by Hans.


-- 
luigi
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