On 4/12/2016 6:42 PM, mass...@fastwebnet.it wrote:
Thank you Hans for your example:

so I'm looking for an automatic way to replace every "È" in the text with 
"\smash{È}".

\definefontfeature[default][default][dimensions={0,1.9,0}]


It took a while to understand how it works but it was worthy.

I try to summarize because others may find it useful:
- the "dimensions" feature is defined in font-ext.lua
- its parameters modify the footprint of the glyphs of a font
- its parameters are factors for glyph's width, height (over the baseline) and 
depth (under the baseline)
- they are factors of emwidth, exheight and exheight respectively
- a value of zero for any of them means "leave the default value untouched",
   dimensions={0,1.9,0} means that only the height of (the footprint of) glyphs 
is set to 1.9 times exheight,
   the other two dimensions stay untouched

Before looking at the code I started playing with the dimensions values
to understand what they controlled. One trial was this

\definefontfeature[default][default][dimensions={2,0,0}]

I got "spaced" text (glyphs have a larger footprint and appear spaced)

But this does not work:

\definefontfeature[spaced][dimensions={2,0,0}]
\starttext
Normal text and {\feature[+][spaced]spaced text}
\stoptext

Is it a feature that works only globally?

indeed, this feature gets applied to the glyphs and from then on tex uses those dimensions

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