[XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

[Will Robertson]

On 27/02/2011, at 8:12 PM, Vadim Radionov wrote:

> But still there are things to be improved.  If i want to change WordSpace locally, I have to add
> some other dummy feature (say, LetterSpace=0), or this change of inter-word space will be applied globally to the current font.

Hi Vadim,

Thanks for the comments. Have you tried the patch? Does it work?

Unless I'm mistaken, it's not possible to change WordSpace locally because of the way (Xe)TeX optimises its font loading -- changing a \fontdimen is always a global operation.

Cheers,
-- Will