[luatex] Kerning: when does it not work?

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Wed May 4 11:11:39 CEST 2011



On 05/04/11 10:34, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> 
> At my opinion it doesn't make much sense to try to add functions to
> the kerning callback. One should try to rewrite \url for lualatex. I
> doubt that with luatex all this mathcode-tweaking is necessary.
> After all you only want to type a text with some catcode changes and
> insert some break points. Also url does contain some encoding (OT1,
> TI, LY1) specific code which could bite when you are using unicode
> fonts.

I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment. I've added that feature
request for myself, but implementation of that will not be enough to
deal with all the madness in url.sty.

Best wishes,
Taco


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