[NTG-context] accessing ital axis in variable font

[Hans Hagen]

On 12/1/2022 7:54 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> using the Literata variable fonts from
> https://github.com/googlefonts/literata/tree/main/fonts/variable, I have
> the following source:
> 
>    \definefontfeature[myaxis][axis={weight=500, italic=1}]
>    \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][Literata][features={default, myaxis}]
>    \setupbodyfont[mainface]
>    \starttext
>    \input zapf\par
>    \it\input zapf
>    \stoptext
> 
> Other axes than weight (and only when not invoked as 'wght') don’t work
> for me (using latest from 2022.12.01 13:05).
> 
> I have used the following source (it seems to be a goodie from current
> latest):
> 
>   \usemodule[fonts-variable]
>   \starttext
>    \showfontvariations[font=file:literata-italic.ttf]
>    \showfontvariations[font=file:literata.ttf]
>   \stoptext
> 
> It reports that the Literata fonts have three (design) axes: wght, opsz
> and ital. ital is only a design axis.
> 
> As explained before, they don’t work for me. How can I access to the
> italic and the optical size axes?
there is no axis defined for italic (it's a design axis so that's 
probably why you have two fonts one with italic in the name)

so, just forget about it

Hans


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