Re: [NTG-context] Catalan especial character (l·l) in ConTeXt

8 Jan 2015

      On 1/8/2015 5:34 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
...
Hi Hans, All,
Your solution is naturaly better, but I was trying to use \topaccent to
solve
the problem.
Yet, in my test I noticed that there maybe a bug in the spacing of the
Middle Dot in the
default font of ConTeXt, as you can see using my MWE.
Hard to say ... a designers choice.
...
Depending on the font used, the result looks likes 19cat’s LaTeX example!
Of course using \topaccent causes a character spacing to the preceding
character!
Here again the result is the worst for the default font of ConTeXt!
Probably because no one ever tested it and provided feedback. One of the 
advantages of going to tex meetings is that one can then try to convince 
font/macro authors to fix / change.

Anyway, this looks good enough to me:

\startluacode

function document.add_some_characters(target,original)
     local characters = target.characters
     local upper      = characters[0x004C]
     local lower      = characters[0x006C]
     local accent     = characters[0x00B7]
     characters[0x013F] = {
         commands = {
             { "char", 0x004C },
             { "push" },
             { "right", - upper.width + accent.width },
             { "char", 0x00B7 },
             { "pop" },
         },
         width  = upper.width,
         height = upper.height,
         depth  = upper.depth,
     }
     characters[0x0140] = {
         commands = {
             { "char", 0x006C },
             { "push" },
             { "right", - accent.width/2 },
             { "char", 0x00B7 },
             { "pop" },
         },
         width  = lower.width + accent.width/6,
         height = lower.height,
         depth  = lower.depth,
     }
end

utilities.sequencers.appendaction("aftercopyingcharacters","system","document.add_some_characters")

\stopluacode

\setupbodyfont[schola]

\starttext

     \section{PEL·LÍCULES} Vull veure pel·lícules al col·legi

     \section{PEĿLÍCULES}  Vull veure peŀlícules al coŀlegi

\stoptext

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