Re: [NTG-context] alpha release / latin modern

Vit Zyka wrote:

Hans Hagen wrote:

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btw, if you patch enco-il2 by

\startcoding[il2][il2] % second entry

and regenerate the format you have a regime for free -)

OK. That is the game. Chars were born.

I prepared a quick comparision of Czech/Slovak accented letters (Latin Modern v. CS Fonts). See http://typokvitek.com/tmp/latin.pdf

Font design is very subjective game, I know. There is my comment: 1) LM has very ugly caron 2) caron is too high at both capitals and minuscules 3) ring is lifeless/faint 4) acute is OK; I would prefer vertical position somewhere inbetween LM an CS, but CS are consistent with tight accents (acute and caron) 5) \v t: caron is too low (does not look as neither ligature connection nor separate accent

No kernings checking for now, just glyph drawing. I can ask LM author (Boguslaw Jackowski ?) about his opinion. But the current tests (especially points 1,2,3) prevent me from the LM font usage in ConTeXt.

So, for me, there are two possibilities to fullfil my aesthetic feeling: 1) go back to the old (no lm) ConTeXt version, or 2) simple switch to set complete CS fonts environment (I use the next code, but it is just a quick hack: \loadmapfile[il2-ams-cmr.map] \definetypeface[computer-modern][il2] \setupbodyfont[modern]

I prefer the second variant. Can we find its solution?

a better solution is to use alternative glyphs, now, one problem is that there are no il2-lm files in the lm distribution and such things could be solved in a il2-lm.* tfm set combined with enc files that map to the prefered instances of glyphs (some glyphs are present in more variants), so i prefer the first variant with adaptions since that was part of the reason for the lm project: replace plr, csr, aer etc kerning is a different game, since the csr metric files are used, you get the same kerns as in csr; but future versions of lm will have improved kerning pairs 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------