Re: iso latin 2

[Vit Zyka <vit.zyka@seznam.cz>]

Adam Lindsay wrote:
> Vit Zyka said this at Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:34:13 +0100:
> 
>>The question is how to elegantly switch from standard (st2) tfm to 
>>extended (st3) tfm when the glyph is not present in st2 - with 
>>preserving \rm, \bf, \it, \bi.
>>
>>Example: {\bf Bold text with special char \textplus} where \texplus is 
>>bold variant from st3 encoded tfm. It is understandable?
> 
> Interesting. There are a couple possibilities, I think. 
> My current favourite, \variant[something], is essentially a convention
> that's built on top of the font synonym mechanism. There's an example
> given at:
> <http://contextgarden.net/Font_Variants>
> ...but I haven't done a proper write-up yet.
> 
> basically, you declare a variant set for a (Serif/Sans/Mono) family:
> \definefontvariant  [Serif] [exp]         [-Expert] 
>                   % [fam]   [call abbrev] [synonym suffix]
> 
> And then you create font synonyms for each of the possible seven
> SerifBlah-Expert fonts that would be called, e.g.:
> 
> \definefontsynonym  [SerifRegular]        [AndulkaText]
> \definefontsynonym  [SerifRegular-Expert] [AndulkaTextExpert]
> \definefontsynonym  [SerifBold]           [AndulkaTextBold]
> \definefontsynonym  [SerifBold-Expert]    [AndulkaTextBoldExpert]
> 
> Where the AndulkaText font resolves to your st2 encoding, and
> AndulkaTextExpert is in your st3 encoding.  (I haven't tried this trick
> with different encodings, but it *should* work!)
> 
> You can then call the proper variant with {\bf Hi there \Var[exp]+}, or
> create a level of indirection with your \textplus macro so that it calls
> the [exp] variant and the glyph together.
> 
> The Storm fonts are beautiful. Sigh. Have fun with them...

Thank you, Adam, for tips and explanation. Now I am a bit short of time, 
but after that I will have a look at it. And want introduce the Storm 
font support. But ... seeing Andulka, some support has already exists 
there, has not it? I would not like to discover wheel ;-)

Vit