Hans, Because I'm just starting to come to grips with parts of the font mechanism, how is this different from the mechanisms within type-siz.tex? Is it that there is one more degree of freedom that the type-siz doesn't map?
adam I believe Bruce D'Arcus said this around Mon, 3 Feb 2003: > >On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 04:55 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> >>> If yes, who will "clarify specs..."? You? that's fine, of course, >>> I'm just a little unclear.... >> >> no, you will clarify the specs -) > >OK, so what do you want to know? In this context (no pun intended), I >want to be able to specify different fonts based on their size range. >What else do you need to know? > >BTW, this kind of thing will be useful as opentype support makes it to >TeX (in my case, I converted to type 1). Most of the Adobe OpenType >Pro text fonts have optical sizing (as did the equivalent MM fonts), >and it'd be nice to simply define a typescript like minionpro-osf and >have optical-size switching handled without further hassle from the >user. > >What I originally had in mind would require me to define 16 separate >typescripts just for this Minion installation: four each along the >regular/SC/OSF/SCOSF axis, and four each along the optical axis. With >this feature, I'd just need four. This would also make the document >styles themselves easier to manage. > >Bruce > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
