Re: [XeTeX] fontspec and scaling

2015-01-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2015-01-20 3:01 GMT+01:00 Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: On 1/17/2015 3:57 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2015-01-17 20:39 GMT+01:00 Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: ...I guess my question is: _If_ a font provides optical sizes, then presumably telling Fontspec which point size to use

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec and scaling

2015-01-20 Thread maxwell
On 2015-01-20 04:55, Zdenek Wagner wrote: If I understand the scaling attribute correctly, let say, you have scaling=1.4 and you request \normalsize which id 10pt. Fontspec will multiply it and request 14pt font size instead. If there is an optical size available, it will be used. This last

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec and scaling

2015-01-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2015-01-20 17:50 GMT+01:00 maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: On 2015-01-20 04:55, Zdenek Wagner wrote: If I understand the scaling attribute correctly, let say, you have scaling=1.4 and you request \normalsize which id 10pt. Fontspec will multiply it and request 14pt font size instead. If there

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec and scaling

2015-01-19 Thread Mike Maxwell
On 1/17/2015 3:57 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2015-01-17 20:39 GMT+01:00 Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: ...I guess my question is: _If_ a font provides optical sizes, then presumably telling Fontspec which point size to use causes it to choose the optical size provided in the font (assuming

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec and scaling

2015-01-17 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2015-01-17 20:39 GMT+01:00 Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: On 1/17/2015 9:08 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: Fontspec does not do any magic. It just provides human friendly interface to the raw commands. It is somewhere in between the raw commands and GUI selection. It cannot in principle

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec and scaling

2015-01-17 Thread Mike Maxwell
On 1/17/2015 9:08 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: Fontspec does not do any magic. It just provides human friendly interface to the raw commands. It is somewhere in between the raw commands and GUI selection. It cannot in principle emulate optical sizes but it has properties for selecting them if they

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec and scaling

2015-01-17 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2015-01-16 23:19 GMT+01:00 maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: I have a question about how scaling is done in fontspec. I am not an expert but there is no answer so far. I will add my opinion. We produce some multi-script documents (grammars). It's sometimes the case that for the non-Roman

[XeTeX] fontspec and scaling

2015-01-16 Thread maxwell
I have a question about how scaling is done in fontspec. We produce some multi-script documents (grammars). It's sometimes the case that for the non-Roman script, the glyphs at the normal point size seem (in comparison with the Roman script glyphs) small. For example, we're using a Dhivehi