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author | Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> | 2011-03-01 18:23:24 +0200 |
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committer | Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> | 2011-03-01 18:23:24 +0200 |
commit | 72785d1210ecae852eb1d84a4dddc44c878b771c (patch) | |
tree | 7062c67a9084c64ca3e0c564240fa75141efc959 | |
parent | b819f1243cb0d9c8d95a7b1a66edd844ebc53964 (diff) | |
download | luaotfload-72785d1210ecae852eb1d84a4dddc44c878b771c.tar.gz |
Make it more clear what kind of features are supported
-rw-r--r-- | luaotfload.dtx | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/luaotfload.dtx b/luaotfload.dtx index 40f3a7c..ceb1c40 100644 --- a/luaotfload.dtx +++ b/luaotfload.dtx @@ -254,16 +254,15 @@ and the derived files % The supported keys are: % \begin{description} % \item [mode] \hfill \\ -% \textsf{luaotfload} has two OpenType processing modes; |base| and -% |node|. |base| mode works mapping those features to traditional -% \tex ligature and kerning mechanisms and thus supports only a subset of -% OpenType features but is a bit faster and is the only processing mode -% supports in math mode. |node| works by direct processing of the node -% list at Lua end and have more wide support of OpenType features but is a bit -% slower. -% -% By default |node| mode is used, and you have to manually force -% |base| mode when needed e.g. for math fonts. +% \textsf{luaotfload} has two OpenType processing modes; |base| and |node|. +% |base| mode works by mapping OpenType features to traditional \tex ligature +% and kerning mechanisms, thus supporting only non-contextual substitutions and +% kerning pairs, but is slightly faster. |node| works by direct processing of +% the node list at Lua end and have more wide support of OpenType features but +% can be slow especially with complex fonts and can't be used in math mode. +% +% By default |node| mode is used, and you have to manually force |base| mode +% when needed e.g. for math fonts. % % \item [script] \hfill \\ % OpenType script string, default value is |dflt|. Some fonts don't assign |