Re: texfont and font mechanism

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:53:15 +0200:

>> define a font family for roman caps [rc] beside the roman [rm] font
>> family. A change to small caps is done with \switchstyleonly[rc], so if
>> you're in SerifBold, you end up in SerifCapsBold.
>
>Good idea.
>I don't really understand the family mechanism.
>Can I define all "styles" like rm, ss... or is
>ist limited (other than the lack of free two-
>letter-combinations)?

I have suggested [rc] (roman caps) and [cs] (caps sans) to complement rm
and ss. I see no reason why it couldn't go further. Things like [hw]
might need some foundational/fallback definitions, though. Need to look
further.

>> It ends up being memory-hungry, and probably a bit slower than other
>> options, but it kinda works.
>
>I like high level solutions, so I need always
>lots of memory... ;-)

Yeah. Me too.

>> Funny coincidence, I was looking around apostrophic labs and other free
>> fonts as well, this weekend. Then I found fontsanon.com. :)
>
>And what do you think? Better? (I'll have a look later.)
>I spent some hours writing (that is, ordering and editing)
>typescripts for Meade's Street family.
>Don't know if I'll use it...

Hey, that's pretty nifty. I installed loads of fonts, but have nothing in
the way of typescripts. I also liked Florencesans and your insight of
putting reverse-italics (yuck) in the slanted slot. And this is *after* I
spent the weekend compulsively texfonting every default Mac font I could
find on my machine.

Did anyone get Scriptina to install? The pltotf step in texfont still hangs.

Cheers,
adam
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