On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:09:40AM -0600, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > > > I couldn't find the source code for the OpenType features > > > in Latin Modern Roman; > > > Voilà! > > > > > > > otfinfo -f lmroman10-regular.otf > > I'd been hoping for the source code as such - i.e. the *.fea files. > Looking at the substitution tables after they're compiled into the *.otf > files can be difficult with a complicated feature like arbitrary-length > fractions; the table format isn't designed to be human-readable. > > Nonetheless, I did take a look at the tables for Latin Modern Roman in > FontForge, and it appears to me that it's just substituting precomposed > glyphs - so that "one fraction two" will become "onehalf" and so on, but > it won't work on arbitrary fractions with a large number of digits. I > haven't dug into Junicode myself, but Alexey Kryukov's posting suggests > that that's how Junicode does it as well. The problem is in the > interaction between arbitrary-length fractions and digit sequences that > are not fractions: I don't think it's possible to support > arbitrary-length fractions and also leave non-fraction digit sequences > untouched.
It can be done to some degree, see: http://talleming.com/2009/10/01/fraction-fever-2/ (I didn't try it myself, though). Regards, Khaled -- 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
