[XeTeX] protrusion for small caps

[Jonathan Kew]

On 19 May 2010, at 19:47, Robert wrote:

> On 18.05.10 10:55, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>   \font\f="MyFont" at 10pt \f
>>   \newcount\n
>>   \loop \noindent \number\n : \XeTeXglyph\n\ = \XeTeXglyphname\f\n \par
>>     \advance\n by 1 \ifnum\n<\XeTeXcountglyphs\f \repeat
> 
> Thanks, this may be helpful (and I've learned two new primitives...)
> 
> Now I seem to have stumbled upon a minor bug: protrusion doesn't work for glyphs inserted with \XeTeXglyph:

True, it wouldn't (because they're handled separately in the internal structures). We should add support for that; thanks for pointing it out.

JK

> 
> \font\x ="Charis SIL" \x
> \parindent0pt
> \parfillskip0pt
> \XeTeXprotrudechars2
> \lpcode\x /w = 500 %  = slot 90
> 
> abc\par
> wbc\par
> \char`wbc\par
> \XeTeXglyph90 bc\par
> abc
> 
> \bye
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Robert
> 
> 
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