On 6/24/2013 11:49 AM, Georg Duffner wrote:

Am 2013-06-24 10:27, schrieb Keith J. Schultz:

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as such ConTexT should support the use of the size table in its font handling, but as Hans has mentioned design sizes a very special and few actually know what that information means and put it to a useful purpose.

Question would be in far this font feature should be rudimentarily supported.

IMO, they should be fully supported. There are not so many fonts with that property and even less in the free software world, so one can assume that somebody possessing such font knows what that means and probably expects its support.

It doesn't change the fact that predictable font names (including weight, width, variant and modifier) are (and will remain) a mess so users need to know precisely what they ask for, even automatisms kick in. Ok, most users won't notice as dont definition files take care of loading, but in that case taking care of the designsizes can be hidden as well (which it is).

I think, context should by default use the appropriate font for each font-size corresponding to the design range defined in the font’s table, while providing an interface to override that automatism.

Well, in that case we should also obey min/max specs that say that fonts cannot be used below or above certain sizes (and I found quite some that has such narrow ranges). In the case of eb ... it's just a few entries in a goodie file, so that does the job. In pratice, finding a properly matched and sized monospace and math takes more time -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------