The MWE case is fixed but for some weird reason the « real » typesetting is still missing the kerns in some cases.

I’ll try to dig up a bit more to modify the MWE eventually.

 

De : Hans Hagen
Envoyé le :dimanche 30 décembre 2018 13:18
À : mailing list for ConTeXt users; Joseph Canedo
Objet :Re: [NTG-context] Issue with missing kerns when using fallback family(or KeterYG font)

 

On 12/30/2018 12:06 PM, Joseph Canedo wrote:

> Dear list,

>

> Given the Following MWE, I notice that with latest beta (does not seem

> to happen before) kerns are not applied in paragraph in which there are

> some hebrew letters. This only affects text after that hebrew letters up

> to end of paragraph.

>

> I use 2 fonts in sample : EBGaramond and KeterYG (can be found in

> various places).

>

> Thanks for advising

>

> Best regards

>

> Joseph

>

> \showfontkerns

>

> \definefontfeature[base][mode=node, kern=yes, script=latn, trep=yes]

>

> \definefontfeature[hebrew][default][mode=node, lang=heb, script=hebr]

>

> \definefallbackfamily[mainfont][serif][KeterYG][preset=range:hebrew,

> scale=1.0, features=hebrew]

>

> \definefontfamily[mainfont][serif][EBGaramond][features=base]

>

> \setupbodyfont[mainfont, 9pt]

>

> \def\He{\hebrewHe}

>

> \def\Tav{\hebrewTav}

>

> \def\Vav{\hebrewVav}

>

> \starttext

>

> VA c'est {\setupalign[r2l]\Tav\He\Vav} VA c'est % there is no kern

> between latest V and A

>

> VA c'est. % kern as expected

>

> \stoptext

in font-ots.lua you can find

 

     local lefttoright  = 0

     local righttoleft  = 1

 

the second line misses a 't'

 

can you test with fixing that

 

(i'm cleaning up a bit of directional code and upcoming betas might have

more of that cleanup)

 

Hans

 

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