Re: [NTG-context] showfont with xetex (syntax changed?)

10 Dec 2007

      Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:09:33 +0100
Hans Hagen  wrote:
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Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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2007/12/6, Steffen Wolfrum :
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Am 06.12.2007 um 14:48 schrieb Hans Hagen:
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something numbers=oldstyle could be supported but i see no real reason
for it since then we end up in endless lists of possibilities
(given all
kind of combinations)
I have not yet played with Lua, thus I can't follow your and Mojca's
discussion at that point.
But to have a handy way to switch on/off oldstyle figures would be
very useful!
"numbers=oldstyle" shouldn't be considered as a theoretical
possibility, it is needed quite often.
Steffen
The following should work, can't test it at the moment
\definefontfeature[enableoldstyle][onum=yes]
\definefontfeature[disableoldstyle][onum=no]
\starttext
123 \setfontfeature{enableoldstyle} 456 \setfontfeature{disableoldstyle} 789
\stoptext
btw, these are attributes and therefore can be used grouped
123 {\setfontfeature{enableoldstyle} 456} 789
Is it also possible to inherit the values from the previuos change,
e.g. I have enabled smallcaps and I want to enable oldstyle numerals
with another command, I tried this but the old setting is forgotten and
only the new setting work, how can I do this.
\usetypescript[palatino]
\setupbodyfont[palatino]
\definefontfeature[caps][smcp=yes,lnum=yes]
\definefontfeature[onum][onum=yes]
\def\sc{\setfontfeature{caps}}
\def\os{\setfontfeature{onum}}
\starttext
Text 123 \sc Text 123 \os Text 123
i assume ...

	Text 123 {\sc Text 123 \os Text} 123

... is meant
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\stoptext
accumulated features is something on the agenda, but we need a proper 
definition interface for that; sometimes one wants to accumulate, 
sometines not; sometime one even wants to kill features
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PS: Will the smallcaps key also work in a feature release of the latin
modern fonts, thid didn't work at the moment and I was forced to use
the Pagella fonts.
maybe there will be a lmroman10 once that has the features merged

Hans

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