From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39441 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XeTeX: faked bold & slanted + request for ppc users Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:03:44 +0100 Message-ID: <47D5A230.60407@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00803090828v6fb74397xd52f5de52f9da3c4@mail.gmail.com> <47D439D7.3050202@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00803100650q575f6c3dx18f731c129463cf9@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205183193 9035 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 21:06:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:06:33 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 10 22:07:00 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JYpCo-0005Hi-RX for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:06:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C53701FC87; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:06:05 +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 10889-01-7; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:05:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A551FC00; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:05:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265BD1FC00 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:05:19 +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 09545-01-7 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:04:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1989C1FCA0 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:03:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 4829 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:03:50 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00803100650q575f6c3dx18f731c129463cf9@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:39441 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: >> Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I just wanted to let you know that XeTeX now supports both faking bold >> > and slanted (and the binaries on the garden minimals have that feature >> > already). It's generally a bad idea to use it, but in case that you >> > need it only for small portions of text (if you really have no other >> > way out), it could be handy. (Slanted is less evil to use than >> > "bold".) >> >> > The plain syntax is: >> > >> > \font\a="Gentium" >> > \font\b="Gentium:slant=0.2" % better: \font\b="Gentium/I" >> > \font\c="Gentium:embolden=2" >> > \font\d="Gentium:embolden=2;slant=0.2" >> >> hm, so it's embolden? in that case we need a remap to extend > > If I understand your question, extending the kerning for line > thickness is missing, yes (but maybe not desired in monospace fonts or no, i meant: slant and extend are the keywords .. similar to what happens in map files > I'm only guessing, but I also have a feeling that ConTeXt could > already support that feature per-se (with minor modifications). > Doesn't "outline fonts" in ConTeXt use exactly the same kind of > trickery as this "embolden" in XeTeX? (Only that outline only draws > outlines, while embolden draws the inner part (normal glyphs) + > outline.) ah, no idea ... extend normally scales the font horizontally (and therefore needs to widen the metrics); using outline trickery for faking bold sounds like a bad idea to me; anyhow, in mkiv that's not a font feature but a rendering option Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________