Will,
Thank you for this patch, i've been waiting for it since months ago.
Yours,
Vadim
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Will Robertson <wsp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-02-20 03:51:03 +1030, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca said:
>
> Manually setting \fontdimen3 and \fontdimen4 seems to correctly change the
>> space stretchability - and in fact is the workaround I'm using for the
>> time being - but it must be repeated after every size change and so it
>> breaks semantic markup. That is the case even with no use of WordSpace in
>> the document at all.
>>
>
> Sorry I'm late to this discussion. Been overly busy.
> This is pretty clearly a bug in the WordSpace feature.
>
> The code here is
>
> \dim_set:Nn \@tempdima {#1\fontdimen2\zf@basefont}
> \dim_set:Nn \@tempdimb {#2\fontdimen3\zf@basefont}
> \dim_set:Nn \@tempdimc {#3\fontdimen4\zf@basefont}
>
> ...
> \tl_put_right:Nx \l_fontspec_postadjust_tl {
> \fontdimen2\font\the\@tempdima
>
> \fontdimen3\font\the\@tempdimb
> \fontdimen4\font\the\@tempdimc
> }
>
> which is later used internally in \DeclareFontShape:
>
> \DeclareFontShape{\zf@enc}{\zf@family}{#2}{#3}
> {\l_fontspec_nfss_tl}{\l_fontspec_postadjust_tl}
>
>
> So it seems like I should be writing something more like
>
> \tl_put_right:Nn \l_fontspec_postadjust_tl {
> \fontdimen2\font=#1\fontdimen2\font
> \fontdimen3\font=#2\fontdimen3\font
> \fontdimen4\font=#3\fontdimen4\font
> }
>
> instead. Does this seem right? (This code dates back years and years, so I
> might not have known what I was doing when this was first written.)
>
> If replies could be CC-ed to me via email I'll be more likely to respond :)
>
> Cheers,
> Will
>
>
>
>
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