more on typescripts (and optical sizes)
I am slowly making progress on this font installation (well, it works with LaTeX, not yet with ConTeXt). However, could I do something like this with a ConTeXt typescript? \DeclareFontShape{T1}{minion}{m}{n}{ <-6> MinionPro-SemiboldCapt-8t <6-9> MinionPro-Capt-8t <9-12> MinionPro-Regular-8t <12-15> MinionPro-Subh-8t <15-> MinionPro-Disp-8t}{\romanprotruding} This is from the LaTeX fd file, and what is useful is that it automatically switches optical size (caption, regular, subhead, and display) based on the size of the font. Bruce
At 01:13 PM 2/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I am slowly making progress on this font installation (well, it works with LaTeX, not yet with ConTeXt). However, could I do something like this with a ConTeXt typescript?
\DeclareFontShape{T1}{minion}{m}{n}{ <-6> MinionPro-SemiboldCapt-8t <6-9> MinionPro-Capt-8t <9-12> MinionPro-Regular-8t <12-15> MinionPro-Subh-8t <15-> MinionPro-Disp-8t}{\romanprotruding}
This is from the LaTeX fd file, and what is useful is that it automatically switches optical size (caption, regular, subhead, and display) based on the size of the font.
Not that complicated to implement, but then let's first clarify specs and make sure everything we want is covered Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
This is from the LaTeX fd file, and what is useful is that it automatically switches optical size (caption, regular, subhead, and display) based on the size of the font.
Not that complicated to implement, but then let's first clarify specs and make sure everything we want is covered
I'm not following you Hans. It *seems* you're saying this kind of thing isn't currently supported, but is easy to add. Right? If yes, who will "clarify specs..."? You? that's fine, of course, I'm just a little unclear.... Bruce
At 04:38 PM 2/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
This is from the LaTeX fd file, and what is useful is that it automatically switches optical size (caption, regular, subhead, and display) based on the size of the font.
Not that complicated to implement, but then let's first clarify specs and make sure everything we want is covered
I'm not following you Hans. It *seems* you're saying this kind of thing isn't currently supported, but is easy to add. Right?
right
If yes, who will "clarify specs..."? You? that's fine, of course, I'm just a little unclear....
no, you will clarify the specs -) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 04:55 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
If yes, who will "clarify specs..."? You? that's fine, of course, I'm just a little unclear....
no, you will clarify the specs -)
OK, so what do you want to know? In this context (no pun intended), I want to be able to specify different fonts based on their size range. What else do you need to know? BTW, this kind of thing will be useful as opentype support makes it to TeX (in my case, I converted to type 1). Most of the Adobe OpenType Pro text fonts have optical sizing (as did the equivalent MM fonts), and it'd be nice to simply define a typescript like minionpro-osf and have optical-size switching handled without further hassle from the user. What I originally had in mind would require me to define 16 separate typescripts just for this Minion installation: four each along the regular/SC/OSF/SCOSF axis, and four each along the optical axis. With this feature, I'd just need four. This would also make the document styles themselves easier to manage. Bruce
Hans, Because I'm just starting to come to grips with parts of the font mechanism, how is this different from the mechanisms within type-siz.tex? Is it that there is one more degree of freedom that the type-siz doesn't map? adam I believe Bruce D'Arcus said this around Mon, 3 Feb 2003:
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 04:55 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
If yes, who will "clarify specs..."? You? that's fine, of course, I'm just a little unclear....
no, you will clarify the specs -)
OK, so what do you want to know? In this context (no pun intended), I want to be able to specify different fonts based on their size range. What else do you need to know?
BTW, this kind of thing will be useful as opentype support makes it to TeX (in my case, I converted to type 1). Most of the Adobe OpenType Pro text fonts have optical sizing (as did the equivalent MM fonts), and it'd be nice to simply define a typescript like minionpro-osf and have optical-size switching handled without further hassle from the user.
What I originally had in mind would require me to define 16 separate typescripts just for this Minion installation: four each along the regular/SC/OSF/SCOSF axis, and four each along the optical axis. With this feature, I'd just need four. This would also make the document styles themselves easier to manage.
Bruce
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At 11:46 PM 2/3/2003 +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote:
Hans,
Because I'm just starting to come to grips with parts of the font mechanism, how is this different from the mechanisms within type-siz.tex? Is it that there is one more degree of freedom that the type-siz doesn't map?
sure, take a look into font-ini and search for getglyph (see symb files for how they are used), or look into the unicode or chinese stuff; there are all kind of automatisms that scale nicely Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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