[NTG-context] some mac fonts do not work correctly
Ulrike Fischer
news3 at nililand.de
Wed Jul 24 11:47:07 CEST 2019
Am Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:04:17 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> we got a bug report that some (proprietary) mac fonts don't work
>> correctly. The reason seem to be that the OpenType cmap format used
>> by these fonts isn't supported by the fontloader.
>>
>> The necessary cmap formats are "platform 0 (Unicode), encoding 1
>> (Unicode 1.1(?)), format 12" and maybe as a fallback "platform 1
>> (Mac), encoding 0 (Roman), format 0".
>>
>> A test would be
>>
>> \starttext
>> \font\oddfont="Big Caslon Medium" \oddfont A
>> \stoptext
> what filename ... when i copy ACaslonPro-Regular from a (by now obsolete
> and old) mac it seems to work
The bug report mentions these filenames:
Heiti TC Light [STHeiti Light.ttc](0) 壹貳參肆伍陸柒捌玖拾
Heiti SC Light [STHeiti Light.ttc](1) 汉体书写信息技术标准相容
Heiti TC Medium [STHeiti Medium.ttc](0) 壹貳參肆伍陸柒捌玖拾
Heiti SC Medium [STHeiti Medium.ttc](1) 汉体书写信息技术标准相容
Big Caslon Medium [BigCaslon.ttf] ABCDEFGHIJKLM
GB18030 Bitmap [NISC18030.ttf] 汉体书写信息技术标准相容
Webdings [Webdings.ttf]
Wingdings [Wingdings.ttf]
Wingdings 2 [Wingdings 2.ttf]
Wingdings 3 [Wingdings 3.ttf]
LiHei Pro [LiHeiPro.ttf] 壹貳參肆伍陸柒捌玖拾
LiSong Pro [LiSongPro.ttf] 壹貳參肆伍陸柒捌玖拾
STFangsong [STFANGSO.ttf] 汉体书写信息技术标准相容
STXihei [STXIHEI.ttf] 汉体书写信息技术标准相容
STHeiti [STHEITI.ttf] 汉体书写信息技术标准相容
Yuanti SC Light [Yuanti.ttc](4) 汉体书写信息技术标准相容
Yuanti SC [Yuanti.ttc](0) 汉体书写信息技术标准相容
Yuanti SC Bold [Yuanti.ttc](2)
Imho Marcel only checked the lua and the cmap for Big Caslon.
https://github.com/u-fischer/luaotfload/files/3423044/ttx-BigCaslon.txt
https://github.com/u-fischer/luaotfload/files/3422873/bigcaslon.lua.zip
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Ulrike Fischer
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