From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13386 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: fourier Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:25:45 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <113BD09D-EAD7-11D7-B41C-0030659899AA@fiee.net> References: <20030919143015.28238@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063999912 7762 80.91.224.253 (19 Sep 2003 19:31:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:31:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Fri Sep 19 21:31:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0Qys-0005as-00 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:31:50 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD3A10B29; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:31:48 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.189]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6FE10B8C for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:25:53 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1A0Qt5-0002IB-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:25:51 +0200 Original-Received: from [62.202.45.247] (helo=fiee.net) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1A0Qt4-0007SG-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:25:51 +0200 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20030919143015.28238@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:13386 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13386 Am Freitag, 19.09.03, um 16:30 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Adam Lindsay: > However, this list: > [Serif] > [SerifSlanted] > [SerifItalic] > [SerifCaps] > [SerifSemiBold] > [SerifSemiSlanted] > [SerifSemiItalic] > [SerifSemiCaps] %[SerifCapsSemi] ?? > [SerifBold] > [SerifBoldSlanted] > [SerifBoldItalic] %[SerifCapsBold] ?? > [SerifBlack] And BlackItalic etc. and the same for Light. If you look at families like Univers or Neue Helvetica, there are: UltraLight/ExtraLight Thin Light Regular Medium Bold Heavy Black=20 UltraBlack the same for condensed and expanded, and everytime with an oblique face. > It's tough: you can easily come up with 100+ styles for a single font, > very legitimately, which suggests that perhaps a stricter > parameterisation could be useful: > 3 upright vs italic vs slanted (+ upright italic?) and sometimes backward slanted > 4 or 5 weights > 2 roman vs caps (or oldstyle, other variants) > x 4 optical sizes > --- > 96+ variations plus Alternates plus Swash plus Outline plus... it never ends ;-) Gr=FC=DFlis vom Hraban! --=20 http://www.fiee.net/texnique/