On 3/28/2018 11:32 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:02 PM, Pablo Rodriguez <oi...@gmx.es> wrote:
On 03/26/2018 07:24 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 3/26/2018 4:55 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 3/26/2018 1:40 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
Hans,
would it be possible to add a embold feature (similar to the slanted
font feature) that fakes the bold font with
\starteffect[both]...\stopeffect and it doesn’t strecht the font?
much is possible if i can motivate myself
Good to know in order to propose new features :-).
Hm.
Fake bold / slanted / small caps /<what ever> of a base font
are dangerous, there is an high risk to compromise the
legibility of the text (this is especially true nowadays with user
consumer tablets 10" full hd ).
A font is not only glyphs, but also kernings and hints and all these
things must match.
As Knuth shown , the right way is to design from the beginning how
each glyph should be transformed
instead of apply to all the glyphs the same transformation (which is
faster, this is sure).
This is the key concept of metafont --- in my opinion better than the
variable fonts .
I am not saying that this impossible to do in context-mkiv ( *it is*
possible: just see 5.3 Virtual fonts of the luatex reference)
but in the end the result is the same of write the correct
bold/slanted/small caps/<whatever> version of the base font .
it's anyway not true to say that 'boldening a font' is a bold font ..
it's more like: hey, we can do the same as all these font vendors,
provide 25 weights of the same base regular (we can't go thinner btw)
a boldened latin modern regular for instance looks like a real 'modern'
latin modern and looks way different from the metafontish produced bold
latin modern (i actually like the boldened more in this case so we can
have a "modern latin modern" typescript ... of course math is a
different issue but even that can be made acceptable
it anway makes a nice topic / presentation for the ctx meeting
Hans
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