[OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 11 mars 2010 06:23, Khaled Hosny a écrit :

> In contrast, the archaic, +25 years old TeX is able to cope with modern
> technology, and have people who do actually care about typography. Last
> month I was able to convince ConTeXt developer to implement support for
> OpenType Optical margins (opbd) feature, though there isn't any font
> that implement it (or any other system, free or proprietary, that
> support it), but I need it for my Arabic fonts, and it take a few mail
> exchanges to get it.

BTW when DejaVu Arabic was done it was limited by the lack of any support for
opentype BASE in font libs. So it was not possible to create a font with
different metrics for Latin and Arabic. Lately Behdad has indicated he would
add BASE to pango if he had a floss font to test with. (but DejaVu maintainers
lost the drive to do it in the meanwhile). So if you're feeling adventurous
(hint hint)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot