Re: relative scaling for fonts

["Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos@web.de>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> � wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Using XeTeX, one of the features that I miss at most from XeLaTeX
>> (from fontspec), is the possibility to set automatically the scaling of
>> fonts so that they match the lowercase or uppercase letters of the roman
>> font. I wonder whether there is something similar for ConTeXt.
>>   
> as already answered in other mails this is possible with the rscale 
> option in typefaces (is completely unrelated to xetex and has been part 
> of the regular context font mechanisms for quite some time)
> 
> You can use
> 
> \showfontstrip
> \showminimalbaseline
> 
> and alike
> 
> relative scaling is not automatic (trivial to implement) simply because 
> it's a visual thing; having similar x-heights is not always the best

Thanks for your explanation, Hans.

After using \showfontstrip to get fonts with the same x-height by
calculating the rscale factor, I guess it would be very useful (at least
for me) to have an option that calculates relative scaling automatically
to match both x-heights.

I think it would be a useful option for rscale.

Thanks,


Pablo
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