Hi, On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:30:33 -0700, Michail Vidiassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> among advertised advantages of TeX there used to be "optical scaling", It still is > 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). Or Latin Modern, also derived from the meta sources. > But it seems now, with TeX Gyre becoming the default free fonts set, it > seems the idea is dropped. LM is default, and is fully optically scaled > Is it really so or one just needs some > commercial OpenType font family to use it (Adobe Opticals)? TeX/ConTeXt supports optical fonts, such fonts (=LM) are still the default, and you can plug any commercially available set like Minion Optical Pro into the system. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
