2015-01-20 17:50 GMT+01:00 maxwell <[email protected]>: > 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 was my question: will the scaling attribute in Fontspec > automatically use an optical size (or since scaling will probably not result > in an exact optical size, will Fontspec scale the closest optical size). > I hope so but you can always explicitly specify which optical sizes should be used for which font size. >>> ...how do I know whether a font supports optical >>> sizes (and which specific sizes it has)? >> >> >> fontinfo -z FILENAME > My fault, I wanted to write
otfinfo -z FILENAME > > There isn't any 'fontinfo' program on our Linux system, and I couldn't find > such a program in a websearch. (There is a Firefox plugin by that name, > written by Jonathan Kew, but that doesn't seem to be what you're referring > to. Also some libraries for Python etc.) There is however a "font > information" dialog box in FontForge. One of its tabs is "Size". For the > font I'm working with (MvElaafNormal.otf.ttf), the "design size" shows up as > 0.0 pts. I suspect that means there are no optical sizes in this font. > > But none of the other fonts I looked at with FontForge (including Charis SIL > and several free Adobe fonts) have anything but 0.0pts in the "design size". > Maybe it's only very high end fonts that have multiple optical sizes? In > which case I've been on a wild goose chase worrying about whether Fontspec's > scaling function will choose the appropriate optical size... > > Mike Maxwell > University of Maryland Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
