Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Hi,
using ConTeXt with XeTeX seems to be an nice option for us MacOSX users. But I get always confused with the names for these rich features like Style Option, Ligatures, Variants.
I mean: how do I know how many variants and style options a font has and how they and their ligatures etc. want to be called? In plain ConTeXt (for the 255 characters) we can use \showfont[...] and \showcharacters in order to know how to call the specific characters/glyphs. But what about OpenType?
\showfont is limited to unicode's 0-255 slots, but it's functional: \showfont["Book Antiqua"]
Peeking at the LaTeX side of XeTeX, I saw that they have created a packages called fontspec which seems to give better access to all (?) if these options.
What about us? Is there help also for XeConTeXt?
I find that the lcdf typetools are a tremendous help:
otfinfo -f ~/Library/Fonts/WarnockPro-Regular.otf
aalt Access All Alternates c2sc Small Capitals From Capitals case Case-Sensitive Forms cpsp Capital Spacing cswh Contextual Swash dlig Discretionary Ligatures dnom Denominators fina Terminal Forms frac Fractions hist Historical Forms kern Kerning liga Standard Ligatures lnum Lining Figures numr Numerators onum Oldstyle Figures ordn Ordinals ornm Ornaments pnum Proportional Figures salt Stylistic Alternates sinf Scientific Inferiors size Optical Size smcp Small Capitals sups Superscript tnum Tabular Figures zero Slashed Zero and I can test the features with: \showfont["Warnock Pro: +smcp"] Fontspec is an impressive piece of work, but I think it's driven much more by the 'possible' than by requirements. My time constraints (i.e., daughter) won't let me do that sort of exploratory coding anymore. I can try and help out with concrete requests, though. [I feel like a lot of the stuff I've done in this space has been released into a vacuum, and that few people are actually making stuff with OpenType and/or XeConTeXt.] adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-