On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 09:08 AM, Adam Lindsay wrote:
So. How would I manage this?
Having discussed this with Bill McClain a bit, you start to understand how complicated it would be to fully support these OpenType fonts, with their huge range of shapes, optical sizes, weights, figure styles, etc. The conclusion I came to was: 1) Typescripts are your friends, and best to have separate ones for small-caps, old-style figures, etc. For Minion Pro: you'd have four, and you'd likely only use one in a document anyway. 2) Use an auto-sizing mechanism to switch the optical sizes (so that you don't end up with 16 typescripts). 3) For things like superior figures for footnotes, tabular figures for tables, etc., I've just started to define special fonts on their own, named like \FootnoteFont or \TableFont. The latter works because you can specify the font in a table, but the former doesn't because there is no equivalent command for footnote markers. In that case, hope you have the skill (which I don't) to figure out some new code Hans came up with for Idris to allow: \setupfootnoteamark[style=\FootnoteFont] Bruce