On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Jan Tosovsky <j.tosovsky@email.cz> wrote:
On 2014-05-15 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 5/14/2014 10:21 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I've finished a rough comparision of various engines for their
> > typographical quality: http://drifted.in/publishing/
> >
> > From my point of view the ConTeXt is the best offering in this
> > field to date, so congratulation!
> >
> > If you find something inappropriate or misleading in my text, please
> > comment or let me know.
> >
> > If my ConTeXt examples could be written more efficiently, I am open
> > to fix it.
>
> Font expansion only, applied to a limited character subset
>
> Is that true? It is applied to any character that you want, of course
> given that you associate expansion factors, but that happens for quite
> some characters in context.

Good point, it should be clarified it is a default vector set, which can be
further customized (extended).
My info is based on this Wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Protrusion
pointing to this source code:
http://source.contextgarden.net/font-ext.lua

By that subset I mean the table vectors['default']


> Concerning homogenization, context has support for dynamically aplying
> feature (alternates) to improve the look and feel but of course not
> many fonts have multiple variants for glyphs grouped in stylistic
> alternates so this mechanism is hardly used (only for some arabic).

Yes, I am aware of this, but it is indeed not very obvious from the text.

Thanks for your suggestions,

Jan

Another point could be the "server" property... the swiglib project is an attempt to cover this side
https://swiglib.foundry.supelec.fr/
--
luigi