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| author | Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net> | 2017-02-04 13:35:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net> | 2017-02-04 13:35:56 +0100 |
| commit | 0842c371132e76fbe67c357b61207e6d5730f553 (patch) | |
| tree | efffc2c64162a288aa787734772fc9399be46dca /doc | |
| parent | 19c26e507f2780ffc428636f7eea817415c18101 (diff) | |
| download | luaotfload-0842c371132e76fbe67c357b61207e6d5730f553.tar.gz | |
[doc] clarify design size handlingv2.8-fix-1
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/luaotfload.conf.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst b/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst index fbef8ec..63472cf 100644 --- a/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst +++ b/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst @@ -153,8 +153,11 @@ and has no effect on the runtime behavior of Luaotfload, the flag should remain set. Most editors come with zlib support anyways. The setting ``designsize-dimen`` applies when looking up fonts from -families with design sizes. The default of DTP-style “big points” -can be changed for ``pt`` or even ``dd``. +families with design sizes. In Opentype, these are specified as +“decipoints” where one decipoint equals ten DTP style “big points”. +When indexing fonts these values are converted to ``sp``. In order to +treat the values as though they were specified in TeX points or Didot +points, set ``designsize-dimen`` to ``pt`` or ``dd``. The list of ``formats`` must be a comma separated sequence of strings containing one or more of these elements: |