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From: "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject: Re:  proposed convention for variation switching	[wasRE:inheriting ...
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:00:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050422000051.17042@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42682C7A.3070606@seznam.cz>

Vit Zyka said this at Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:43:06 +0200:

>A) for extended glyph definitions and old style digits {Var[os]} (if 
>they are not default in the font - in that case there might be reverse 
>normal style digit variant \Var[ns?]).

I'm used to them being called lf: lining figures. But other names apply
just as well.

> So I will have to solve many similar 
>problems with naming conventions. So I am interesting about some 
>recommendations. What way to solve via
>A) variants via \Var[...]
>B) \tf, \bf, ... switches,
>C) different font family.

Naming conventions are about as far as we can go--and I'm fairly in
favour of them. 

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-21 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-21 18:36 Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-04-21 19:56 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-04-21 22:43   ` Vit Zyka
2005-04-21 23:00     ` Adam Lindsay [this message]
2005-04-22  8:16   ` Hans Hagen
2005-04-22  9:38     ` Vit Zyka
2005-04-22 14:36     ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-04-22 14:55       ` Adam Lindsay
2005-04-22 17:13         ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-04-21 19:59 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-04-21 23:53 Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-04-22  8:45 ` Vit Zyka
2005-04-22  9:03   ` Taco Hoekwater

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