[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

2023-08-23 Thread Hamid,Idris
Hi Vincent, On Aug 22, 2023, 2:56 PM -0600, Vincent Hennebert , wrote: I don’t know about its quality, but Adobe makes the Source Serif font available under the SIL Open Font License, with 5 optical sizes and 6 weights. I’m working on a typescript file that allows to use all those variants, would

[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

2023-08-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/22/2023 10:53 PM, Vincent Hennebert wrote: On Tue, 2023-08-22 at 15:45 +, Hamid,Idris wrote: On Aug 22, 2023, 2:06 AM -0600, Hans Hagen via ntg-context , wrote: On 8/22/2023 6:31 AM, Hamid,Idris wrote: I'm not going to look into this until there is a complete test case for this which

[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

2023-08-22 Thread Vincent Hennebert
On Tue, 2023-08-22 at 15:45 +, Hamid,Idris wrote: > On Aug 22, 2023, 2:06 AM -0600, Hans Hagen via ntg-context cont...@ntg.nl>, wrote: > > On 8/22/2023 6:31 AM, Hamid,Idris wrote: > > I'm not going to look into this until there is a complete test case > > for > > this which means: > > > > -

[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

2023-08-22 Thread Hamid,Idris
On Aug 22, 2023, 10:21 AM -0600, Hans Hagen , wrote: Also, some of these commercial licenses have become pretty restrictive. With respect to spending time on something, the same is true for some tools: supporting acrobat, fonts, specific file formats, features etc ... one way tickets ... if we

[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

2023-08-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hamid,Idris schrieb am 22.08.2023 um 17:45: On Aug 22, 2023, 2:06 AM -0600, Hans Hagen via ntg-context , wrote: On 8/22/2023 6:31 AM, Hamid,Idris wrote: Design sizes for typefaces -- aka "optical sizes" -- are no longer directly implemented in typescripts. From the manual

[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

2023-08-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/22/2023 5:45 PM, Hamid,Idris wrote: (OTOH, had previously seen yours and Mikael's sophisticated minion-math.lfg) It's not that complete and we only tested an old evaluation copy. Our policy wrt commercial fonts is now that we only look into them when we get (some 5) copies for context

[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

2023-08-22 Thread Hamid,Idris
On Aug 22, 2023, 2:06 AM -0600, Hans Hagen via ntg-context , wrote: On 8/22/2023 6:31 AM, Hamid,Idris wrote: Design sizes for typefaces -- aka "optical sizes" -- are no longer directly implemented in typescripts. From the manual Fonts out of ConTeXt by Hans Hagen, p. 109: You can still do it

[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

2023-08-22 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 8/22/2023 6:31 AM, Hamid,Idris wrote: Dear gang, Design sizes for typefaces -- aka "optical sizes" -- are no longer directly implemented in typescripts. From the manual Fonts out of ConTeXt by Hans Hagen, p. 109: You can still do it but for all these years only cm has design sizes so one