[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 8/22/2023 5:45 PM, Hamid,Idris wrote:

> (OTOH, had previously seen yours and Mikael's sophisticated minion-math.lfg)

It's not that complete and we only tested an old evaluation copy. Our 
policy wrt commercial fonts is now that we only look into them when we 
get (some 5) copies for context dev without any restriction of usage 
because we might want to show them in manuals or articles or 
presentations and there is no reason to spend time on them unlees we're 
paid for it.

> I think that my version is/will be more complete - except for mathematics. Once some fine-tuning and additional testing is done, will donate the results to ConTeXt.

Good.

> As for free fonts. MinionPro Opticals should be considered an exception to the free-fonts rubric. After all,
> 
> i)  its multiple-master design base was inspired by MetaFont/Knuth, and hence
> ii) it's very popular with TeXies.

I don't have that font set and am not willing to spend money in it either.

> Put another way, Minion Pro should be considered an honorary TeX typeface -)

Hm, so we should honor a font vendor for that? Do font vendors expect 
texies to spend time on something they cannot use? Also, some of these 
commercial licenses have become pretty restrictive. With respect to 
spending time on something, the same is true for some tools: supporting 
acrobat, fonts, specific file formats, features etc ... one way tickets 
... if we need it in a project i can waste the time on it, otherwise i 
rather spend the time on things we (and users) can actually use and have 
fun with.

Hans

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