Mojca Miklavec wrote:
But generally, LuaTeX is much more suitable for such previews (only that there might be no "newshowfont" available yet - writing one is doable if you know what you're interested in).
My two cents: ConTeXt currenty uses smcp=yes,script=latn,onum=yes,liga=yes... while fontspec uses either Letters=SmallCaps Script=Latin Numbers=OldStyle Ligatures=Common or the same raw names as above. I would prefer the "human-readable" names as in fontspec, but ... well, the font calling mechanisms really need to improve in my opinion.
What fontspec achieves in one line like (copying from XeTeX list): \setmainfont[Script=Devanagari]{Sanskrit 2003} needs dozens of lines in ConTeXt (definefontfeature, define typescripts in two steps, ... brrrr)
So in case that some more features in XeTeX/LuaTeX change, do not be surprised too much ...
keep in mind that xetex and mkiv support will not be the same in all those aspects; i more or less expect users to use one or the other engine and then become familiar with its specific interfaces anyhow, a next version of mkiv will support more verbose options, script=slovenian smallcaps=true basically anything in the script, language and feature hashes (lowercased and de-spaced when compared) something numbers=oldstyle could be supported but i see no real reason for it since then we end up in endless lists of possibilities (given all kind of combinations) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------