[NTG-context] Re: Optical scaling in Latin Modern

2023-08-17 Thread Vincent Hennebert
On Tue, 2023-08-15 at 18:22 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8/15/2023 5:33 PM, Hamid,Idris wrote: > > > > so [\s!designsize=\s!auto] means there is no explicit call to lmroman8-regular etc.? Interesting.. > > > check the lfg file ... On that note, there seems to be an inconsistency in the

[NTG-context] Re: Optical scaling in Latin Modern

2023-08-15 Thread Hamid,Idris
Ah, the goodies files.. Got it and thanks for the clarifications. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 On Aug 15, 2023, 10:22 AM -0600, Hans Hagen , wrote: ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** On 8/15/2023 5:33 PM,

[NTG-context] Re: Optical scaling in Latin Modern

2023-08-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/15/2023 5:33 PM, Hamid,Idris wrote: so [\s!designsize=\s!auto] means there is no explicit call to lmroman8-regular etc.? Interesting.. check the lfg file ... Hans - Hans Hagen |

[NTG-context] Re: Optical scaling in Latin Modern

2023-08-15 Thread Hamid,Idris
On Aug 15, 2023, 8:56 AM -0600, Hans Hagen , wrote: > afaik mkiv always had modern as default an dnot the designsize > typescript (after all, we only have math 10pt) From font-pre.mkiv: %D By default we load the Computer Modern Roman fonts (but %D not yet at this moment) and activate the 12pt

[NTG-context] Re: Optical scaling in Latin Modern

2023-08-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/15/2023 4:35 PM, Hamid,Idris wrote: But for sure ConTeXt used to load lmroman12-regular (or the computer-modern 12 pt) by default. So things have changed.. afaik mkiv always had modern as default an dnot the designsize typescript (after all, we only have math 10pt) well you can load

[NTG-context] Re: Optical scaling in Latin Modern

2023-08-15 Thread Hamid,Idris
On Aug 15, 2023, 8:09 AM -0600, Hans Hagen , wrote: > yes, but there are also typescript that define the sizes (made more > sense on low res printers) .. the current defaults have been so for many > years (so the fact that you didn't notice ...) Maybe I forgot about it.. I seem to remember a

[NTG-context] Re: Optical scaling in Latin Modern

2023-08-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/15/2023 3:56 PM, Hamid,Idris wrote: Dear gang, It seems that ConTeXt does not currently implement optical scaling for Latin Modern -- at least not by default. For example: === \startTEXpage[offset=1em] Test {\tfa Test} {\tfb Test} {\tfc Test} {\tfd Test} {\tfx Test} {\tfxx Test}