On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Michail Vidiassov wrote:
Dear All,
among advertised advantages of TeX there used to be "optical scaling", when text in the same font but in different sizes has different shapes of glyphs. That used to be the feature of metafont fonts and derived PostScript ones (like cm-super).
That mostly means: - TeX supports optical scaling - the default font inscludes optical sizes
But it seems now, with TeX Gyre becoming the default free fonts set, it seems the idea is dropped.
It's not about dropping the idea, but about too much work that needs to be invested into adapting some font for different optical sizes.
Is it really so or one just needs some commercial OpenType font family to use it (Adobe Opticals)?
If free fonts don't satisfy your needs ... then yes. Another option is funding development of free fonts :) :) :) Mojca