Hi, all. I'm trying to come to terms with some expert fonts, and to map a strategy for dealing with them. Right now, I'm looking at the limits described by font-ini, and trying to see if I understand them correctly.
Small caps are treated as a style of their own, which doesn't interact with \bf boldface the same way \it italic or \sl slanted do. With some of the pro fonts I'm starting to deal with (e.g., Cronos Pro or Minion Pro), there are small caps for each of \bf, \it, and \bi, as well as the normal \tf typeface. <http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/pdfs/1733.pdf> The existing model can be interpreted this way: | shape | weight|norm |slant|ital |caps | ------|-----|-----|-----|-----| norm| tf | sl | it | sc | bold| bf | bs | bi | | I'm not enthusiastic about the slanted shape in general, so I would draw another model, basically as a 2x2x2 cube, but rendered here in 2 slices: (lowercase) (smallcaps) | shape | | shape | weight|norm |ital | weight|norm |ital | ------|-----|-----| ------|-----|-----| norm| tf | it | norm| sc | ic | bold| bf | bi | bold| bc | bt | (who knows what the short name of the last cell should be?) I see this as being typographically more attractive than the dependence on \kap{} and similar commands (since the stroke weight stays much more consistent when you use the pre-defined, non-faked glyphs). So. How would I manage this? I guess I'm wondering if I'm going to get into trouble if I experiment with redefining \slfam, \ttfam, and \bsfam for my own nefarious purposes? Do other people see another way of handling things? Side issues, but related... In August 2002, Hans replied to Bruce D'Arcus: >>Why not in ConTeXt then? If one has a complete expert set of a font >>like Minion, shouldn't what I outlined above be the default behavior of >>a TeX macro system? Once TeX supports OpenType this will become all >>the more relevant... > >you can set up a lot, like fonts and conversions of numbers so it's possible, Am I right in guessing that I would find this in supp-num.tex now? It's interesting, and it definitely seems to be similar in spirit to the font- based switches for tabular (monospaced) vs. proportional figures that are enabled by these pro fonts. I haven't studied this in detail (texexec -- module completely fails on this one), but can it include font switching? Would that be the appropriate approach? Any thoughts? adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
