Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Hello,
I'm wondering why before defining a typeface I must define a synonym for it. For example, my minimal working definition for Vladimir Script fontface is
\starttypescript [serif] [vladimirscript] \definefontsynonym [Serif][name:vladimir][features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [vladimirscript] \definetypeface [vladimirscript] [rm] [serif] [vladimirscript] [default] \stoptypescript
Being XeTeX-adherent, it is a pain for me write that all for every font I use. Why I cannot specify it as simply as
\starttypescript [vladimirscript] \definetypeface [vladimirscript] [rm] [serif] [name:vladimir] [default] \stoptypescript
or better just
\definetypeface [vladimirscript] [rm] [serif] [name:vladimir] [default]
without any synonyms?
depends if you want to access the individual fonts later on, some fonts come with 20 variants and only a few are used in a typeface then but you still may want to access the rest with symbolic names -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------