Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-28 Thread Will Robertson
On 2011-03-01 00:58:45 +1030, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca said: It's important not to override the widths of glyphs because of the common case I described earlier of a font that is in some meaningful way monospaced, but doesn't have all characters exactly the same width. Also note that XeTeX cur

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-28 Thread Will Robertson
On 01/03/2011, at 1:28 AM, Vadim Radionov wrote: > one side-effect of your patch is that now, afaics, WordSpace multipliers work > cumulatively in > > \newfontfamily\russianfont[Mapping=tex-text,Script=Cyrillic,WordSpace={1.4,.9,.8}, > SmallCapsFeatures={LetterSpace=5,WordSpace={1.5,1,1}}]{Char

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-28 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Will one side-effect of your patch is that now, afaics, WordSpace multipliers work cumulatively in \newfontfamily\russianfont[Mapping=tex-text,Script=Cyrillic,WordSpace={1.4,.9,.8}, SmallCapsFeatures={LetterSpace=5,WordSpace={1.5,1,1}}]{CharterITC} while they were unrelated before. Vadim O

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-28 Thread mskala
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Tobias Schoel wrote: > If the monospace option is set by hand for non-monospaced fonts, how will the > letters be positioned in the monospaced grid? How should the following pattern > look? I only envision the monospace option as affecting the width of TeX's word and sentence

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-28 Thread Tobias Schoel
If the monospace option is set by hand for non-monospaced fonts, how will the letters be positioned in the monospaced grid? How should the following pattern look? mmm mim ciao Toscho Am 27.02.2011 17:32, schrieb Peter Dyballa: Am 27.02.2011 um 06:32 schrieb Will Robertson: Could we measur