On 25-8-2010 10:05, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Am 24.08.2010 um 20:37 schrieb Oliver Buerschaper:
Hi all,
Today I started preparations for my activities at the ConTeXt meeting.
There are two small lua tutorials in the program, and I am looking for input on both. There is one that is supposed to be a general beginner's introduction, and one specifically about fonts.
For both, I am looking for input on what subjects I should cover?
Since both tutorials will end up as articles/wiki pages, it makes sense to ask everybody on the list for input (but requests by actual attendees will be scored considerably higher).
Perhaps some example to modify a font at runtime? I don't know whether that's possible at all, but if yes, it would be great to see how one could modify kerning tables etc. Often a font needs to be groomed but its license places some restrictions on modifying the file itself...
+1
This is somewhat tricky. Actually I had a mechanism for that but I discarded the code. However there will be a feature like that some day as it needs a rather tight integration in the core of context's font handling. (btw, there is a feature for type 1 fonts that adds 'missing' kerns based on shape codes). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------