Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 8/16/06, Jeff Smith wrote:
Hi!
I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of them.
The fonts manual mentions how TeX is often qualified as 'the font mess'. Well, yeah, my head hurts right now... :-( Here are some font-related issues that are very important to me:
don't forget that when tex came around much of this digital font was still unexplored
also, any font related mechanism is complex as soon as math gets involved; if computer modern would not have had design sizes much would have been simplier as well; another factor is that most font subsystems were written when tex's hash was still small and font memory expensive ; of course the (sometimes global) character of font settings also plays havoc anyhow, tex users will always demand features beyond what is easy 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------