HI, Jacob
On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 at 18:45, Jacob S. Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey Pedro,
>
> On 2025-06-14 02:41, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez wrote:
> > After giving it a thought, I would say that adding a new custom
> > variable to control the default options might do the trick.
> > Something like (in .dir-locals.el format):
> >
> > #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
> > (org-latex-fontspec-default-features
> > . (("Path" . "../fonts/")
> > ("Extension" . ".otf")
> > ("Numbers" . "OldStyle")))
> > #+END_SRC
> >
> > would cover the use case, right. For your example it could reduce to
> > #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
> > (org-latex-fontspec-default-features . (("Numbers" . "OldStyle")))
> > #+END_SRC
> > And that wouldn't be to cumbersome and flexible enough at the same
> > time.
>
> That definitely works!
Good!
> > I wonder if we want to cover all cases like in
> > #+BEGIN_SRC latex
> >
> > \defaultfontfeatures[\rmfamily,\sffamily]{Ligatures=TeX}
> >
> > #+END_SRC
> >
> > That would surely make things too tricky, I fear.
> >
> > WDYT? Do we really need it?
>
> Right, there’s also ways to create and manipulate custom families and
> faces. I agree that it might be too much; the goal isn’t to completely
> replicate the `fontspec' interface, just provide some convenience for
> common use-cases. My feeling is that this level of customization is
> better left to `LaTeX', e.g. users could instead:
>
> - add a `\defaultfontfeatures+' to append to already-existing defaults,
> - tangle a `fontspec.cfg'.
Then we are on the same page on that. I want something flexible but
easy to understand and
use. If it is easy to code, then we are in paradise.
> Thanks,
>
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Thank _you_ for the discussion :-) and valuable feedback
/PA
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