Re: [NTG-context] 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature

Hi Luigi, As I said, this example does not produce a PDF file for me. I will attach the output. Undefined control sequence ... ...and it points to \showfontkerns In previous attempts to load a font file directly, I used a command structures something like [file:FreeSerif.otf*default], but these never worked for me either, and you seem to be using some other method. How should one load the file for this example? You didn't answer the question: to investigate this behaviour, must I install a second, newer version of context, or can I use the disro version? What is the reason for installing the latest version of ConTeXt? Is this \showfontkerns only in versions newer than 2012.05.30 11:26 MKIV ? This \showfontkerns may be interesting to me, generally. (So I have a further incentive to get this going!) On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:24 PM, luigi scarso wrote:

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Steve White wrote:

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Hi Luigi,

I am lacking still

* a working input (*.tex) file %% test.tex \usemodule[simplefonts][size=25pt] \definefontfeature[latins][default][script=latn] \setmainfont[FreeSerif] \starttext \showfontkerns dadedidodufafefifofufrflftlalelilolutatetitotu\par \addfs{latins} dadedidodufafefifofufrflftlalelilolutatetitotu\par \stoptext

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* the command line to build it with ConTeXt

$> context test.tex

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There are already two ConTeXt installations on different machines here. The most recent is 2012.05.30 MKIV, on Ubuntu. Are you saying I have to install the latest version of ConTeXt to see the effects being discussed?

Quick how-to $>## install latest minimals under /opt/luatex/standalone-new $>## and run the test $>mkdir -p /opt/luatex/standalone-new $>cd /opt/luatex/standalone-new $>wget http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh $>bash /first-setup.sh --modules=simplefonts $>## wait a little $>cd tex $>source setuptex $>## ok we shoudl have context mkiv now $>context --version $>cd texmf-project $>mkdir fonts && cd fonts $>wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/freefont-src-20120503.zip $>unzip freefont-src-20120503.zip $>cd freefont-20120503 $>mv *.ttf ../ $>cd .. $>mtxrun --script font --reload $>## let's see if they are installed $>mtxrun --script fonts --list --all|grep free $>cd .. $>## put the test.tex here $>context test.tex

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I see vertical lines in your attached PDF... is this a new complaint?

vertical bars are the result of \showkerns

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I thought the problem was that sometimes kerning isn't activated. could be.

-- luigi

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