Fonts with Complex OpenType Tables
Zpravodaj Československého sdružení uživatelů TeXu (2011)
- Volume: 021, Issue: 2-4, page 309-332
- ISSN: 1211-6661
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topPíška, Karel. "Fonts with Complex OpenType Tables." Zpravodaj Československého sdružení uživatelů TeXu 021.2-4 (2011): 309-332. <http://eudml.org/doc/298872>.
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abstract = {The paper presents development of complex OpenType fonts. The sample fonts cover Czech and Georgian handwriting with numerous letter connections. At the beginning, general principles of "advanced typography" are shown - complex metric data represented by OpenType tables (GSUB and GPOS) - and compared them with the ligature and kerning tables in METAFONT. Then the history of the OpenType font production is described - approaches, tools and techniques. Crucial problems, critical barriers, attempts and ways how to reach successful solutions, are discussed and several tools for font creating, testing, debugging and conversions between various text and binary formats are demonstrated. Among these tools are, for example, AFDKO, VOLT, FontForge, TTX, Font-TTF. Their features, advantages, disadvantages, and also cases of possible incompatibilities (or maybe errors) are illustrated. Finally, using the OpenType fonts in the TeX world applications are presented: XeTeX and LuaTeX (ConTeXt MkIV), the programs allowing to read and process OpenType fonts directly.},
author = {Píška, Karel},
journal = {Zpravodaj Československého sdružení uživatelů TeXu},
keywords = {font; font production; Unicode; OpenType; GSUB; GPOS; AFDKO; VOLT; FontForge; TTX; Font-TTF; TeX; METAFONT; TFM; XeTeX; ConTeXt; LuaTeX; font; tvorba fontů; Unicode; OpenType; GSUB; GPOS; AFDKO; VOLT; FontForge; TTX; Font-TTF; TeX; METAFONT; TFM; XeTeX; ConTeXt; LuaTeX},
language = {eng},
number = {2-4},
pages = {309-332},
publisher = {Československé sdružení uživatelů TeXu},
title = {Fonts with Complex OpenType Tables},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/298872},
volume = {021},
year = {2011},
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PB - Československé sdružení uživatelů TeXu
VL - 021
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AB - The paper presents development of complex OpenType fonts. The sample fonts cover Czech and Georgian handwriting with numerous letter connections. At the beginning, general principles of "advanced typography" are shown - complex metric data represented by OpenType tables (GSUB and GPOS) - and compared them with the ligature and kerning tables in METAFONT. Then the history of the OpenType font production is described - approaches, tools and techniques. Crucial problems, critical barriers, attempts and ways how to reach successful solutions, are discussed and several tools for font creating, testing, debugging and conversions between various text and binary formats are demonstrated. Among these tools are, for example, AFDKO, VOLT, FontForge, TTX, Font-TTF. Their features, advantages, disadvantages, and also cases of possible incompatibilities (or maybe errors) are illustrated. Finally, using the OpenType fonts in the TeX world applications are presented: XeTeX and LuaTeX (ConTeXt MkIV), the programs allowing to read and process OpenType fonts directly.
LA - eng
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