2012/9/4 Philip TAYLOR <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > > > Zdenek Wagner wrote: > >> If the system offered inserting features dynamically without requiring >> users to understand font internals, it would be even better. > > > Hear hear. As one who sits only on the edge of typography and > ?fontography?, I find the present XeTeX interface almost unusable, > requiring (as it currently does) a detailed knowledge of font > internals if one is to derive maximum benefit from the > available font features. If the interface were more abstract, > and accessible to those who understand what they want to achieve > but not how any extant font might help them in achieving that > goal, I believe that that would be an enormous step forwards. > > ** Phil.
Yes, this is the biggest problem. The experts say that the OpenType specification itself is not clearly written. Thus different shapers implement various features in a different way and thus it may happen that a font works fine in one program but not in another. I know that various features are available but I can only use some of them. I cannot even find which features are available in the font. I can display some information using otfinfo but I do not understand the output. -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex