Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
I just wanted to let you know that XeTeX now supports both faking bold and slanted (and the binaries on the garden minimals have that feature already). It's generally a bad idea to use it, but in case that you need it only for small portions of text (if you really have no other way out), it could be handy. (Slanted is less evil to use than "bold".)
The plain syntax is:
\font\a="Gentium" \font\b="Gentium:slant=0.2" % better: \font\b="Gentium/I" \font\c="Gentium:embolden=2" \font\d="Gentium:embolden=2;slant=0.2"
hm, so it's embolden? in that case we need a remap to extend
If I understand your question, extending the kerning for line thickness is missing, yes (but maybe not desired in monospace fonts or
no, i meant: slant and extend are the keywords .. similar to what happens in map files
I'm only guessing, but I also have a feeling that ConTeXt could already support that feature per-se (with minor modifications). Doesn't "outline fonts" in ConTeXt use exactly the same kind of trickery as this "embolden" in XeTeX? (Only that outline only draws outlines, while embolden draws the inner part (normal glyphs) + outline.)
ah, no idea ... extend normally scales the font horizontally (and therefore needs to widen the metrics); using outline trickery for faking bold sounds like a bad idea to me; anyhow, in mkiv that's not a font feature but a rendering option Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------