Hi,
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:30:33 -0700, Michail Vidiassov
among advertised advantages of TeX there used to be "optical scaling",
It still is
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).
Or Latin Modern, also derived from the meta sources.
But it seems now, with TeX Gyre becoming the default free fonts set, it seems the idea is dropped.
LM is default, and is fully optically scaled
Is it really so or one just needs some commercial OpenType font family to use it (Adobe Opticals)?
TeX/ConTeXt supports optical fonts, such fonts (=LM) are still the default, and you can plug any commercially available set like Minion Optical Pro into the system. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523