On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Michail Vidiassov wrote: > Dear All, > > among advertised advantages of TeX there used to be "optical scaling", > when text in the same font but in different sizes has different shapes of > glyphs. That used to be the feature of metafont fonts and derived > PostScript ones (like cm-super).
That mostly means: - TeX supports optical scaling - the default font inscludes optical sizes > But it seems now, with TeX Gyre becoming the default free fonts set, it > seems the idea is dropped. It's not about dropping the idea, but about too much work that needs to be invested into adapting some font for different optical sizes. > Is it really so or one just needs some > commercial OpenType font family to use it (Adobe Opticals)? If free fonts don't satisfy your needs ... then yes. Another option is funding development of free fonts :) :) :) Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
