Re: [NTG-context] LMTX: reimplementing texquotes as OTF feature

11 Nov 2022

      On 11/11/2022 10:19 PM, Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context wrote:
...
Hi,
as Hans recommended in the last video meeting, I tried to implement
the texquotes feature using OTF features, and hit two problems:
1) To support German quotes as well, I have two ligatures that end
    up as the same glyph:
       `` -> “
       "' -> “
    This can't be in the same ligature feature, as it will overwrite
    the table entry with a duplicate key.
After some fiddling, I decided to map "' to a Unicode PUA symbol
    and then add a second feature that maps this symbol to “ using
    the substitute feature.  This works for TeX Gyre Schola.
    But perhaps someone knows a nicer way.
2) This approach doesn't work for lmodern or palatino, I still
    get "' as inch-sign/quote there... anything else I need to tweak
    for these fonts?
\startluacode
     fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature {
         name = "texlig",
         type = "ligature",
         data = {
             ['“'] = { "`", "`" },
             ['”'] = { "'", "'" },
             ['„'] = { '"', "`" },
             [''] = { '"', "'" },
             ['‘'] = { "`" },
             ['’'] = { "'" }
         }
     }
     fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature {
         name = "texsub",
         type = "substitute",
         data = {
             [''] = '“',
         }
     }
\stopluacode
% with lmodern or palatino it breaks
\setupbodyfont[schola]
\definefontfeature[ltest][texlig=yes,texsub=yes,trep=no]
\addff{ltest}
\starttext
``foo'' `foo' "`foo"' 19" rack
\stoptext
can you show what is wrong and what it should be with
fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature {
         name = "germantexlig",
         type = "ligature",
         data = {
             ['“'] = { "`", "`" },
             ['”'] = { "'", "'" },
             ['„'] = { '"', "`" },
             ['“'] = { '"', "'" },
             ['‘'] = { "`" },
             ['’'] = { "'" }
         }
     }

best not use an existign feature because we accumulate ... features come 
in order (you can force order if needed as you probably saw in one of 
the test files)

\definefontfeature[ltest][germantexlig=yes,trep=no] \addff{ltest}

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