Re: [NTG-context] faking smallcaps font with font features and fallbacks

Hi,

On 4 Oct 2018, at 15:46, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/4/2018 3:19 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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On 4 Oct 2018, at 14:11, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/4/2018 1:44 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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Hi,

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ok, even nicer:

\definefontfallback[FakeSansCaps] [SansEmboldened] [0x0000-0xFFFF] [rscale=.8,method=uppercase]

which will remap all lowercase in the font so that you also get accented characters I do not like ‘emboldened’ as it results in a very ugly screen preview for me. But the new ‘uppercase’ feature is really neat, since it makes something that I had in mind for IBM Plex very easy to implement. Here is the demo:

hm, here it actually looks quote ok ... apple preview issue? Probably, but that also means I will not trust an unknown device at some printshop to do the ‘right thing’. hm, so then you can't trust linewidths either because that is what it does

Modifying the text rendering mode (Tr operator) is not quite the same as altering the line width in the page stream. Typically, renderers have separate code paths for text rendering and font rendering. Anyway, to add to the list: mupdf-gl also appears to do fine. Best wishes, Taco