On 1/17/2015 3:57 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
2015-01-17 20:39 GMT+01:00 Mike Maxwell <[email protected]>:
...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.
I read that, but it doesn't refer to the 'scaling' attribute (it does use
\scalebox in example 16, but I presume that's different). Maybe the fact that
it doesn't mention scaling is my clue; scaling simply resizes whatever optical
size is already chosen?
If that's correct, then I should be using the 'OpticalSize' attribute instead of
'scaling'. But how do I know whether a font supports optical sizes (and which
specific sizes it has)? Are such sizes embedded within a single font file, or
do TTF fonts that support this have separate files for specific sizes? There's
nothing obvious in the output of fc-list -v.
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Mike Maxwell
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one that has the capacity to study itself."
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