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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