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
>
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