On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 05:32:38PM -0400, David Perry wrote: > Thanks to Peter for creating and releasing this font. Eadui is an > amazing piece of work. If you have a serious interest in what can > be done with OT features, you should at least look at the PDF > documentation if you didn't do so before. And thanks to XeTeX > (along with fontspec) for giving Windows and Linux users access to > advanced typography; that's why I decided to learn Xe(La)TeX. > > I used Eadui to set a sample text in the book I'm currently > finishing. One issue came up during that process: the contextual > alternates (calt) feature should be on by default, according to the > OpenType spec; but it isn't in XeTeX. Why not? Can/Should that be > changed?
OpenType implementation usually follow MS recommendations for each script, not the UI recommendation in the OT feature registry. So for Latin, the default features are defined in: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/standot/features.aspx Which doesn't include calt, compare it with Arabic, for example: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/arabicot/features.aspx (Don't ask me why MS and OpenType implementors did so.) Regards, Khaled > > David > > Peter Baker wrote: > >Many thanks to those who tested my Eadui font, which tries to > >faithfully reproduce the English Caroline Minuscule hand of the > >eleventh-century Canterbury scribe Eadui Basan. I've released > >version 1.0 under the Open Font License on the Open Font Library > >website: > > > >http://openfontlibrary.org/files/psb6m/177 > > > >Many OpenType features: all the heavy testing was done in XeTeX. > > > >Happy summer to all, > >Peter Baker > > > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------- > >Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
