From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/61840 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: New typescript mechanism for weights/opticals? Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:01:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4C99F01D.6090902@wxs.nl> References: <20100922133501.6e2ec5d8@vorbis> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285156930 5425 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2010 12:02:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Marco To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Sep 22 14:02:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyO1W-0003me-R0 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:02:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6E8CA75F; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:02:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id M3QdIOedQL15; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:02:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59840CA75A; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:02:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357E8CA75A for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:02:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id t-x6cQ+aGHIL for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:01:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (filter1-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B904CA742 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:01:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o8MC1vMR009316 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:01:57 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 4382-1713362 for multiple; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:00:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 ThunderBrowse/3.3.2 In-Reply-To: <20100922133501.6e2ec5d8@vorbis> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 07D9M1V50 - b6301071be4b - 20100922 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.152 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:61840 Archived-At: On 22-9-2010 1:35, Marco wrote: > Hi, > > I like Mojcas idea for new typescripts: > > %%%%%%%%%%% > \startsomenewfonttypescriptcommand [kepler] > [width={condensed,semicondensed,*regular,extended}] > [size={caption,*regular,subhead,display},switch={10pt,12pt,17pt}] > [weight={light,*regular,medium,semibold,*bold,black}] > ... > %%%%%%%%%%% > \switchtofontdimension[width=semicondensed,weight={light,medium}] > %%%%%%%%%%% sure. looks nice, but the outcome is quite unpredictable unless you know the font and that in turn demands some investiation on the users end > That would make different weight/opticals font handling much less cumbersome. > At the moment its no fun dealing with weights/opticals. it will never be fun ... (in most cases one will use suggested combinations and then for odd cases like a section title something special) > I really would appreciate that (or any other easy usable) solution that > provides a standardized way to handle weights/opticals with not too much > overhead. given the huge differences in font collections there will never be an easy way with fonts that come in many weights/widths/sizes .. at least I cannot remember a project that I did where any system was present Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________