From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25960 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Lindsay Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: OpenType and XeConTeXt Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:46:05 +0000 Message-ID: <43F1D10D.4040600@comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: <93E6CE25-2D58-428C-A212-6114A4BEEE51@st.estfiles.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139921195 20877 80.91.229.2 (14 Feb 2006 12:46:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:46:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Feb 14 13:46:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1F8zZB-0003Ft-RE for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:46:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD9A127B2; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:46:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29201-01; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:45:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6426127A2; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:45:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C25127A2 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:45:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28565-07 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:45:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id B62791276C for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:45:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.31.101] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1ECjopG008701; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:45:55 GMT User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) Original-To: Steffen Wolfrum In-Reply-To: <93E6CE25-2D58-428C-A212-6114A4BEEE51@st.estfiles.de> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25960 Archived-At: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > > using ConTeXt with XeTeX seems to be an nice option for us MacOSX users. > But I get always confused with the names for these rich features like > Style Option, Ligatures, Variants. > > I mean: how do I know how many variants and style options a font has and > how they and their ligatures etc. want to be called? > In plain ConTeXt (for the 255 characters) we can use \showfont[...] and > \showcharacters in order to know how to call the specific > characters/glyphs. But what about OpenType? \showfont is limited to unicode's 0-255 slots, but it's functional: \showfont["Book Antiqua"] > Peeking at the LaTeX side of XeTeX, I saw that they have created a > packages called fontspec which seems to give better access to all (?) if > these options. > > What about us? Is there help also for XeConTeXt? I find that the lcdf typetools are a tremendous help: > otfinfo -f ~/Library/Fonts/WarnockPro-Regular.otf aalt Access All Alternates c2sc Small Capitals From Capitals case Case-Sensitive Forms cpsp Capital Spacing cswh Contextual Swash dlig Discretionary Ligatures dnom Denominators fina Terminal Forms frac Fractions hist Historical Forms kern Kerning liga Standard Ligatures lnum Lining Figures numr Numerators onum Oldstyle Figures ordn Ordinals ornm Ornaments pnum Proportional Figures salt Stylistic Alternates sinf Scientific Inferiors size Optical Size smcp Small Capitals sups Superscript tnum Tabular Figures zero Slashed Zero and I can test the features with: \showfont["Warnock Pro: +smcp"] Fontspec is an impressive piece of work, but I think it's driven much more by the 'possible' than by requirements. My time constraints (i.e., daughter) won't let me do that sort of exploratory coding anymore. I can try and help out with concrete requests, though. [I feel like a lot of the stuff I've done in this space has been released into a vacuum, and that few people are actually making stuff with OpenType and/or XeConTeXt.] adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-