Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt

Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt

[Adam Lindsay]

Hi ConTeXters.

I've finally documented some font support macros and typescripts that
I've been working on. I collected the ideas in a MyWay magazine:

 <http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/OpenType.pdf> (782 Kb)

The companion files are on the site as well:

 <http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/OpenType.zip> (25 Kb)

A web page to hold all this stuff is forthcoming.

The best way to describe what it does is with the abstract:

  This is a summary of issues encountered and solutions
  implemented in order to support some advanced OpenType
  features in ConTeXt. This article describes an accompanying
  package that addresses installation (using TeXFont),
  accommodating extended opticals families, and some ``pro'' font
  features. The extended character set afforded by pro fonts 
  enables support for comprehensive small caps, old-style
  figures, and the use of greek glyphs to give workable math fonts. 
  Although the typescripts and commands are described 
  together, certain features (like variant encodings for TeXFont 
  and the idiosyncratic method for creating new math fonts)
  can be used independently of the other features described. 


I hope this proves interesting, if not useful, to others.

Cheers,
adam
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Re: Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen]

At 18:21 08/05/2003 +0100, Adam Lindsay wrote:
>Hi ConTeXters.
>
>I've finally documented some font support macros and typescripts that
>I've been working on. I collected the ideas in a MyWay magazine:

ah, very nice!

this reminds me that Willy has to publish His Way (tables) also -)

Hans
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Re: Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 04:10  PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 18:21 08/05/2003 +0100, Adam Lindsay wrote:
>> Hi ConTeXters.
>>
>> I've finally documented some font support macros and typescripts that
>> I've been working on. I collected the ideas in a MyWay magazine:
>
> ah, very nice!

Yes indeed!   I've privately congratulated Adam on this, but I'd like 
to so publicly.  Really nicely done.

Hans, it would be really nice if you could distribute Adam's extended 
version of texfont with the regular distribution.

Also, would be great to see the command I earlier asked for (but is 
beyond my skills to figure out myself) to have a style switch for 
footnote marks to enable use of a special superior digit variant.  :-)

Bruce

Re: Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt

[Willi Egger]

> I hope this proves interesting, if not useful, to others.

Great work! - Once one will have OpenType-fonts this will definitively help

Willi

Re: Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt

[Adam Lindsay]

Bruce D'Arcus said this at Thu, 8 May 2003 23:34:43 -0400:

>
>On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 06:10  PM, Adam Lindsay wrote:
>
>> So, other than font bugs, what's missing?
>
>OSF variant, obviously (typographically, that'd generally be the 
>default font).

Shall I rename the osft1.enc you sent me earlier as ecOSF.enc, and add
that to the distribution? Have anything else to contribute?

>I've also created variants to remap the superior and tabular figures 
>into the normal figure slots.  This produces nicer footnote marks 
>(well, in LaTeX; don't know how to get it working in ConTeXt) in the 
>first case, and nicer numeric tables on the other.  I've only manually 
>created these for the "regular" font, since there's little point in 
>bold or italic numbers in either of these cases.

If you think other would be interested in this encoding, send it my way,
and I'll throw it in there...

adam

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Re: Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 06:10  PM, Adam Lindsay wrote:

> So, other than font bugs, what's missing?

OSF variant, obviously (typographically, that'd generally be the 
default font).

I've also created variants to remap the superior and tabular figures 
into the normal figure slots.  This produces nicer footnote marks 
(well, in LaTeX; don't know how to get it working in ConTeXt) in the 
first case, and nicer numeric tables on the other.  I've only manually 
created these for the "regular" font, since there's little point in 
bold or italic numbers in either of these cases.

Bruce

Re: Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt

[Adam Lindsay]

Bruce D'Arcus said this at Thu, 8 May 2003 17:28:27 -0400:

>
>Also, I've noticed odd kerning with apostrophes, in both Jenson Pro 
>and, it seems, in your sample on page 1 where the word "Adobe's" looks 
>quite odd.

I agree.

>Any ideas what's going on with that?  A mistake in the metric files?  
>And how would this be corrected; go into the kerning pairs and adjust 
>them for this glyph?

Frankly, I don't know. It's annoying. 
I suspect it's probably as you say.

So, other than font bugs, what's missing?

adam

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Re: Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt

[Bruce D'Arcus]

Also, I've noticed odd kerning with apostrophes, in both Jenson Pro 
and, it seems, in your sample on page 1 where the word "Adobe's" looks 
quite odd.

Any ideas what's going on with that?  A mistake in the metric files?  
And how would this be corrected; go into the kerning pairs and adjust 
them for this glyph?

Bruce

Re: Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt

[Adam Lindsay]

[copied to list]

Bruce D'Arcus said this at Thu, 8 May 2003 16:13:12 -0400:

>How would you deal with the margin-kerning hand-tuning favored by Bill 
>McClain and Achim?  Would these just be separate files for each font 
>input into the main typescriptfile?

I like good hanging (I prefer "punctuation", myself), too. Bill or Achim
could define their own hanging preferences in their own fonthandling in a
file that's input. They can then do a mass find/replace of
"handling=pure" and put their own named font handling in.

Cheers,
adam

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