From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20035 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vit Zyka Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: proposed convention for variation switching [wasRE:inheriting ... Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:43:06 +0200 Message-ID: <42682C7A.3070606@seznam.cz> References: <4275956D@webmail.colostate.edu> <20050421205604.33@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114123090 11296 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2005 22:38:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 22 00:38:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOkIv-0000g9-Fr for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:37:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE4412778; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:42:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03425-05-3; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:42:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1447D127B8; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:42:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FA6127B8 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:42:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03425-05-2 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:42:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.seznam.cz (smtp.seznam.cz [212.80.76.43]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id EDFA512778 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:42:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 20088 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2005 22:42:01 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (vit.zyka@62.240.166.134) by smtp.seznam.cz with SMTP; 21 Apr 2005 22:42:01 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20050421205604.33@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0516-6, 20.04.2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20035 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20035 Adam Lindsay wrote: > > It's not that I'm trying to rain on your parade, it's just that I've lost > a bit of enthusiasm for standardisation. I generally agree with Adam, fonts are very varios. But the next Idris idea is nice. More intuitive then \sc, \bc, \ic, and \bic. I would vote for it, but ... at least \sc needs some backward compatibility :-( >>%% small caps >>% medium \TF >>% bold \BF >>% italic \IT >>% bold italic \BI Another discussion proposal: I will get the rest font families from Storm to make the support complete. 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. For now I am using: 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?]). B) standard 4 + small caps + symbols/ornaments designed to the font {\sy} C) condensed, extended, medium, ... Some comments? Cheers, vit