new typeface toy

new typeface toy

[Adam Lindsay]

Hey Patrick, all,

I like the wiki a lot. Thanks for getting it going! It's a nice, quick
way to get hints out there. 

As a result, I wrote up a little font-usage hack that wasn't quite big
enough for a MyWay, but that I wanted to share with folks:

<http://members.ping.de:8062/context/show/FlexiFace>

But enough of the self-promotion ;) There's a lot of good stuff up there.

adam
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Re: new typeface toy

[Hans Hagen]

Adam Lindsay wrote:

>Hey Patrick, all,
>
>I like the wiki a lot. Thanks for getting it going! It's a nice, quick
>way to get hints out there. 
>
>As a result, I wrote up a little font-usage hack that wasn't quite big
>enough for a MyWay, but that I wanted to share with folks:
>  
>
interesting, the last time i had to combine fonts i made a mental note to discuss this on the list and ask for a volunteer -) 

if you're happy with type-flx (we can make a synonym btw) we can add it   to the distribution; but only when the dimensions are frozen since it influences line breaking; 

you can play with : \setuptypeface[flex][default=rm] -) 

Hans   

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Re: new typeface toy

[Adam Lindsay]

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:46:52 +0200:

>if you're happy with type-flx (we can make a synonym btw) we can add it 
> to the distribution; but only when the dimensions are frozen since it
>influences line breaking; 

Okay, sounds good. I would really appreciate having some other people try
it out and comment before freezing it. The sanserifs, in particular, need
more optical than mathematical matching. 

>you can play with : \setuptypeface[flex][default=rm] -) 

Oh yeah. I remember that. Yeah, I'll try that. :)
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Re: new typeface toy

[Hans Hagen Outside]

Adam Lindsay wrote:

>Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:46:52 +0200:
>
>  
>
>>if you're happy with type-flx (we can make a synonym btw) we can add it 
>>to the distribution; but only when the dimensions are frozen since it
>>influences line breaking; 
>>    
>>
>
>Okay, sounds good. I would really appreciate having some other people try
>it out and comment before freezing it. The sanserifs, in particular, need
>more optical than mathematical matching. 
>  
>
indeed; (btw, your numbers suggest calculations, normally i stick to .05 steps); an option is to have some clever rscale=flexscaled{xx} mechanism which permits up/down rounding, but that's for later; 

btw, in the latest example suite (cont-exa.tex) there is a fonttest interface to play with (probably went unnoticed) 

Hans 

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Re: new typeface toy

[Adam Lindsay]

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:46:52 +0200:

>if you're happy with type-flx (we can make a synonym btw)

Oh, no synonym needed for my part (not deployed in a major project).
Are you happy with the approach? Do you reckon the 5.16667pt and 6.0pt x-
height will be sufficient? (Lucida in particular is shrunk very
significantly, but then Lucida is an exception anyway.)

adam
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