On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:48:27PM +0200, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > this is not the place to elaborate on this (more for the usual font bof > > session at bachotek) but to some extend it's a packaging issue: why a > > full smallcaps embedded but not an italic > > Actually, you can do that with OpenType: there is an 'ital' feature, > and using it would allow to embed italic correction information within > the fonts. You can't do that with fonts of different design sizes, > alas.
It is usually used by CJK fonts since italic is only for LGC part of the font. Combining fonts with different design sizes is not usually good idea since they have different metrics and hinting zones etc. making the merge pointless. You can use TTC to collect several fonts in one file, though. Regards Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
