But still there are things to be improved. If i want to change WordSpace
locally, I have to add
some other dummy feature (say, LetterSpace=0), or this change of inter-word
space will be applied globally to the current font.
Vadim
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Vadim Radionov
<vadim.radio...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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