Re: Will the real palatino please stand up?

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

John R. Culleton said this at Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:49:09 +0000:

>In the typescript file type-syn.tex the palatino font is defined
>four times, twice for math and twice for serif.  The headers in
>each pair are identical, e.g.:
>
>\starttypescript [serif] [palatino] [name]
>
>
>Assume I want to use the second serif typescript, the one that uses
>the Palladio fonts. Using the \usetypescript statement, how do I
>specify that particular script? 

They all get loaded.
The second group (corresponding with the second [serif] [palatino]
[ec,texnansi,8r] typescript in type-enc) is a set of bonus extras, not
stand-alone, that help call in the FPLv1 fonts, which are:
Regular Caps & OsF,
Italic OsF,
Bold OsF, and
BoldItalic OsF.

The different glyph shapes mean they can't really be used on their own as
a family, but rather called out as variants, generally for Old Style
Figures. Actually, the "bonus definitions" down at the bottom of type-syn
are preparation for font variants. So after installing the FPL[1] fonts,
adding the following to your environment:

\definefontvariant [Serif] [os] [OsF]

...allows you to get oldstyle figures with markup like {\Var[os]123}.

However (and I can already hear the question forming on some people's
lips), if you want pervasive OsFs in your Palatino document, without
having to mark each numeric string, you're better off installing the FPL-
Neu fonts[2], using an old-stylish encoding like one listed in Idris's
recent MyWay or in the distro[3].

[1]<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fpl/>
[2]<http://home.vr-web.de/was/x/FPL/>
[3] fonts/enc/dvips/context/texnansi-os-lm.enc

Cheers,
adam
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