On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:17:13AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 25-8-2010 10:05, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > > >Am 24.08.2010 um 20:37 schrieb Oliver Buerschaper: > > > >>>Hi all, > >>> > >>>Today I started preparations for my activities at the ConTeXt meeting. > >>> > >>>There are two small lua tutorials in the program, and I am looking > >>>for input on both. There is one that is supposed to be a general > >>>beginner's introduction, and one specifically about fonts. > >>> > >>>For both, I am looking for input on what subjects I should cover? > >>> > >>>Since both tutorials will end up as articles/wiki pages, it makes > >>>sense to ask everybody on the list for input (but requests by actual > >>>attendees will be scored considerably higher). > >> > >>Perhaps some example to modify a font at runtime? I don't know whether > >>that's possible at all, but if yes, it would be great to see how one could > >>modify kerning tables etc. Often a font needs to be groomed but its license > >>places some restrictions on modifying the file itself... > > > > > >+1 > > This is somewhat tricky. Actually I had a mechanism for that but I > discarded the code. However there will be a feature like that some > day as it needs a rather tight integration in the core of context's > font handling. (btw, there is a feature for type 1 fonts that adds > 'missing' kerns based on shape codes).
And there is font feature files, which, when not broken :), look the same to the OpenType handling code as if the feature were in the original font i.e. no special handling needed. 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
