[luatex] Font expansion and virtual fonts

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Feb 9 15:46:57 CET 2018


On 2/9/2018 3:34 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> 
>> there is a test for the type being virtual .. can you omit that flag? just pretend it's a real font .. works here (i need to check why that test is there, it might not be needed in luatex any more)
>>
>> so no type="virtual"
> 
> 
> that was the culprit! Without that type="virtual" everything is fine.
ok, but we need to keep in mind that only glyphs get scaled, so not 
other virtual operators, but one can set the expansion factor to 0 for 
such shapes (instead of the default 1000);

i might remove the check (but need to test that for a while)

Hans

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