Re: showfont with xetex (syntax changed?)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Am 06.12.2007 um 18:55 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> 
>> something like that ...
>>
>> keep in mind that you don't need to define a font then,
>>
>> {\setfontfeature{smallcaps}Some Text}
>>
>> will automatically give you that featureset so in practice we can do
>> with only a few real font definitions; mkiv keeps track of such  
>> dunamic
>> features and efficiently caches data;
>>
>> we sped up luatex + mkiv some 30% and when using dynamic features with
>> huge fonts (zapfino, arab, chinese) we can even gain more
> 
> 
> wow!!

gave us a good feeling too -)

luatex will always be slower than pdftex, if only because it has wide 
fonts, multi-directional typesetting etc; to some extend this can be 
compensatd by using less fonts, but then, more features also has a price

Hans



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