Re: Small-Caps and Old-Style numbers

[Bill McClain <wmcclain@salamander.com>]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:21:05 +0200
Peter Sojan <ilikeunix@gmx.net> wrote:

> 1. Bold-Caps, how do I access them? Is something like 
>    "SerifBoldCaps" allowed?

I don't think so (perhaps Hans will correct me?) I would define a new
typescript such as "MyGaramondBold" where the [SerifCaps] synonym
references the bold small caps font. You'll have to \switchtobodyfont to
use that font.

> 2. How should I integrate Old-Style numbers, so that a switch with 
>    \os works? Under Latex the solution from the packager was to 
>    reimplement all fonts with a different filename. That is 
>    instead of padr9e, padr9d would be used for Garamond-Roman with 
>    Old-Style numbers. Obviously this (virtual) font maps-in old 
>    style number-glyphs from the adobe extension font and keeps 
>    everything else as is. 

This works:

    \definefontsynonym [OldStyle] [xxx] 

Where "xxx" is a reference to the font file with the old-style figures.
What is lacking, I think, is [OldStyleBold] and [OldStyleItalic]. So you
can't usefully combine \os with \it or \bf. (Am I wrong about that?)

>    One solution would be to setup another typescript with old-style 
>    fonts and switch to it everytime directly by \usetypescript and 
>    \switchtobodyfont. 

That's what I've done when I've wanted an old-style roman, italic and
bold by default. If you just need roman, you can define [OldStyle] as
above.

-Bill
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