Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Am 2007-11-18 um 10:30 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > >>> I didn't check yet what characters are contained in which, but I >>> guess ConTeXt would need some logic to enable proper typesetting of >>> blackletter text, e.g. handling s and ſ. Have to look at Yannis' >>> efforts for LaTeX, too. And I guess I must recode these fonts to >>> follow Unicode standards (should be manageable with a fontforge >>> script). >> Do you mean Yannis' yfrac etc.? IIRC, that depends on his special >> fonts. While browsing, I found this package: >> http://www.lg.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/~ynagata/khmpackage.html > > Thank you. I'm trying to follow the most modern approach: OpenType > features - if I manage to put the logic into the font, it's usable > also with InDesign. Even if I don't know if ConTeXt (i.e. XeTeX/ > LuaTeX) will handle stuff like alternative characters well. > At the moment I'm struggling filling the GSUB tables with > FontForge... (it's easy *if* you know exactly what you do) > >> PS "gothic latex" is an interesting search term :-) > > I guess one will find more black than letters and more masked than > type faces. ;-)
subs should work ok in luatex you can also define your own (see fea files in distribution) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________