2015-01-17 20:39 GMT+01:00 Mike Maxwell <[email protected]>: > 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 are available >> in the font. > > > Thanks for the response. 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 one > exists for the requested point size). If this is correct, then to re-phrase > my original question: If instead of specifying a point size for a particular > font/stretch of text, I tell Fontspec to use scaling, then does it choose > the closest optical point size provided in the font (and maybe > magnify/demagnify it slightly if the scaling doesn't result in an exact > optical point size)? Or does Fontspec instead magnify/demagnify the glyphs > from the document's default point size?
See section 7.6 (page 21) of the fontspec manual, it is explained there. > -- > Mike Maxwell > [email protected] > "My definition of an interesting universe is > one that has the capacity to study itself." > --Stephen Eastmond > > Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
