[XeTeX] Font protrusion --- new or old ?

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

> Of course, I'm amazed with the amount of features that FontForge has. It
> certainly supports more aspects and tables of the OpenType specification
> than FontLab Studio -- though I cannot judge on the quality of
> FontForge's support for those aspects. Unfortunately for me, I cannot
> get FontForge to quite work for me, and I'm often overwhelmed by the
> complexity of this program -- so I stick to FontLab Studio, which I know
> well.

OK I understand your point. Nevertheless, I can tell you that the MATH
table works as expected (people use the math font I created with
FontForge with MS Word and XeLaTeX with no problem) and
the contextual and other features work as expected. In addition, 
recent versions include a language, much similar to the one FontLab users
can use to specify features. So now one can use a GUI and a "programming" 
language to specify features. Personally, I have to say that I have played with 
a demo version of FontLab, but I did not like it. For me FontForge has more 
capabilities and a better user interface. And now that its hinting algorithms are 
very much improved, I believe it is an excellent tool. 

Regards,

A.S.

 
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