On 12-4-2010 9:43, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 09:23:02PM +0200, Marco wrote:
With MkIV \cap and \nocap is no longer necessary when you have a
opentype font
with the smcp (smallcapitals) and c2sc (capitals to smallcapitals)
features.
Thanks for your explanation. But why doesn't your example work with the
latin modern fonts? Don't they have these features? I'd be surprised
when they don't have small caps.
They don't have a small caps OpenType feature (smcp) for a reason beyond
to me, they however have an old-fashioned separate small caps font.
this is because they are cm compatible (the initial objective of the
project was a merge of all those variants)
in the future we might have extra lm fonts that have those features but
the team is still not sure if this should be done ... it makes much
sense for consistency to have smallcaps merged in the normal shapes but
even then there would be a separate smallcaps font as well
I would liked to send "patches" to LM fonts project, but they don't have
a source repository and their work flow depends on proprietary software
that I cannot afford.
concerning the workflow you're wrong ... they use public tools like
metatype1 which is free ... and they're currently building a tool chain
for the math fonts
concerning the repos you're right ... given earlier experiences with
lack of quality assurance in public fonts the lm/gyre project follows
strickt procedures and only the core team can patch ... of course you
can send suggestions and patches but the core team decides
fyi: the gyre team (gust font foundation) has now reverted to the core
urw fonts for which they got the copyright and it made it possible to
get rid of some ugly artefacts and glyphs (again, lack of qa had
rendered the latest public urw fonts somewhat useless)
Hans
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